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Nabokov’s Early Fiction (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

Julian W. Connolly’s study of Vladimir Nabokov’s early Russian-language fiction successfully bridges the gap between the trend in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, in which critics focused on Nabokov’s metafictional literary puzzles, and the trend in the 1980’s, in which they emphasized the interpersonal and ethical thematic dimensions of his work. Connolly’s thesis is that during the first phase of Nabokov’s literary career, one of the central concerns of his art was the relationship between the self and the other, a concern that developed through four stages from his...

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