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==Further reading== ===Biography=== {{Refbegin|40em}} * {{cite book |author= Boyd, Brian |author-link= Brian Boyd |title= Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years |place= Princeton, N.J. |publisher= Princeton University Press |url = https://archive.org/details/vladimirnabokovr0000boyd/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater |url-access=registration |year= 1990 |isbn=0-691-06794-5}} (hardback) 1997. {{ISBN|0-691-02470-7}} (paperback). London: Chatto & Windus, 1990. {{ISBN|0-7011-3700-2}} (hardback) *{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/vladimirnabokova00boyd |url-access=registration|title=Vladimir Nabokov: the American years|last=Boyd|first=Brian|date=1991|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=069106797X|location=Princeton, N.J.|oclc=22906836|ref=BrianBoydTheAmericanYears}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Harvard University Press| isbn = 978-0-674-01819-8| last = Chien| first = Evelyn Nien-Ming| title = Weird English| chapter = A Shuttlecock Over the Atlantic| location = Cambridge, Massachusetts; London| date = 2005}} *Field, Andrew. ''VN The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov''. New York: Crown Publishers. 1986. {{ISBN|0-517-56113-1}} *Golla, Robert. ''Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov''. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2017. {{ISBN|978-1496810953}} *Parker, Stephen Jan. ''Understanding Vladimir Nabokov''. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 1987. {{ISBN|978-0872494954}} *Proffer, Elendea, ed. ''Vladimir Nabokov: A Pictorial Biography.'' Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ardis, 1991. {{ISBN|0-87501-078-4}} (a collection of photographs) *Rivers, J.E., and [[Charles Nicol|Nicol, Charles]]. ''Nabokov's Fifth Arc.'' Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1982. {{ISBN|978-0-292-75522-2}}. *[[Stacy Schiff|Schiff, Stacy]]. ''Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov).'' New York, NY.: Random House, 1999. {{ISBN|0-679-44790-3}}. {{Refend}} ===Criticism=== {{Refbegin|40em}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Princeton University Press| isbn = 978-0-691-06866-4| last = Alexandrov| first = Vladimir E.| title = Nabokov's otherworld| location = Princeton, N.J| date = 1991}} *{{Cite book| publisher = University of California Press| isbn = 978-0-520-02167-9| last = Bader| first = Julia| title = Crystal land; artifice in Nabokov's English novels| location = Berkeley| date = 1972| url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/crystallandartif0000bade}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Ardis| isbn = 978-0-87501-060-1| last = Barabtarlo| first = Gennady| title = Phantom of fact: a guide to Nabokov's Pnin| location = Ann Arbor| date = 1989}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Ohio State University Press| isbn = 978-0-8142-1099-4| last = Blackwell| first = Stephen H.| title = The quill and the scalpel: Nabokov's art and the worlds of science| location = Columbus| date = 2009}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Princeton University Press| isbn = 978-0-691-00959-9| last = Boyd| first = Brian| title = Nabokov's Pale fire: the magic of artistic discovery| location = Princeton, NJ| date = 1999| url = https://archive.org/details/nabokovspalefire00boyd_0}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Academic Studies Press| isbn = 978-1-934843-65-9 | last = Connolly| first = Julian W.| title = A reader's guide to Nabokov's "Lolita"| location = Boston| series = Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history| date = 2009}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Princeton University Press| isbn = 978-0-691-06971-5| last = Foster| first = John Burt| title = Nabokov's art of memory and European modernism| location = Princeton, N.J| date = 1993}} *{{Cite book| publisher = McFarland & Co| isbn = 978-0-7864-6357-2| last1 = Hardy| first1 = James D.| last2 = Martin| first2 = Ann| title = "Light of my life": love, time and memory in Nabokov's Lolita| location = Jefferson, N.C.; London| date = 2011}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Ardis| isbn = 978-0-88233-908-5| last = Johnson| first = Donald B.| title = Worlds in regression: some novels of Vladimir Nabokov| location = Ann Arbor| date = 1985}} *Livry, Anatoly. [http://www.editions-hermann.fr/ficheproduit.php?lang=fr&menu=&ref=Critiques+litt%E9raire+Nabokov+le+nietszch%E9en&prodid=892 «Nabokov le Nietzschéen»] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921164302/http://www.editions-hermann.fr/ficheproduit.php?lang=fr&menu=&ref=Critiques+litt%E9raire+Nabokov+le+nietszch%E9en&prodid=892 |date=21 September 2013 }}, HERMANN, Paris, 2010 {{in lang|fr}} *[http://exlibris.ng.ru/non-fiction/2011-06-02/6_game.html Ливри, Анатолий. Физиология Сверхчеловека. Введение в третье тысячелетие] СПб.: Алетейя, 2011 312 с. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816062952/http://exlibris.ng.ru/non-fiction/2011-06-02/6_game.html|date=16 August 2011}} *{{Cite book| edition = 1st| publisher = Wesleyan University Press| isbn = 978-0-8195-5206-8| last = Meyer| first = Priscilla| title = Find what the sailor has hidden: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale fire| location = Middletown, Conn| date = 1988| url = https://archive.org/details/findwhatsailorha00pris}} *{{Cite book| publisher = University of Toronto Press| isbn = 978-1-4426-4020-7| last = Morris| first = Paul Duncan| title = Vladimir Nabokov: poetry and the lyric voice| location = Toronto; Buffalo|year= 2010}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Garland | isbn = 978-0-8153-0857-7| editor-last1=Nicol|editor-first1=Charles|editor-link1=Charles Nicol|editor-last2=Barabtarlo |editor-first2=Gennady | title = A Small Alpine form: studies in Nabokov's short fiction| location = New York| series = Garland reference library of the humanities|year= 1993}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Routledge & Kegan Paul | isbn = 978-0-71009-223-6| editor-last=Page|editor-first=Norman| title = Nabokov: The Critical Heritage| location = London| series = The Critical Heritage series|year= 1982}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Harvard University Press| isbn = 978-0-674-59840-9| last = Pifer| first = Ellen| title = Nabokov and the novel| location = Cambridge, Massachusetts| date = 1980| url = https://archive.org/details/nabokovnovel00pife}} *{{Cite book| publisher = McFarland & Co| isbn = 978-0-7864-6076-2| last = Rutledge| first = David S.| title = Nabokov's permanent mystery: the expression of metaphysics in his work| location = Jefferson, N.C| date = 2011}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Bloomsbury| isbn = 978-1-62892-426-8 | last = Schuman| first = Samuel| title = Nabokov's Shakespeare| location = New York| date = 2014}} *{{Cite book| publisher = University of Texas Press| isbn = 978-0-292-77733-0| last = Shrayer| first = Maxim D.| title = The World of Nabokov's Stories| location = Austin| series = Literary modernism series| date = 1998| url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/worldofnabokovss0000shra}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Cambridge University Press| isbn = 978-0-521-63283-6| last = Shrayer| first = Maxim D.| author-mask = 3 | chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/nabokovhisfictio00conn/page/n86 | editor-last =Connolly | editor-first = Julian W. |title = Nabokov and His Fiction: New Perspectives| url = https://archive.org/details/nabokovhisfictio00conn| url-access = limited| chapter = Jewish Questions in Nabokov's Life and Art| location = Cambridge; New York| series = Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature |pages=73–91 | date = 1999}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Louisiana State University Press | author-last=Stuart | author-first=Dabney | title = Nabokov: The Dimensions of Parody | year= 1978}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Cornell University Press| isbn = 978-0-8014-2211-9| last = Toker| first = Leona| title = Nabokov: the mystery of literary structures| location = Ithaca| date = 1989| url = https://archive.org/details/nabokovmysteryof00toke}} *{{Cite book| edition = 1st | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan| isbn = 978-0-230-10261-3| last = Trousdale| first = Rachel| title = Nabokov, Rushdie, and the transnational imagination: novels of exile and alternate worlds| location = New York| date = 2010}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Endellion Press| isbn = 978-1739136109| last = Vernon| first = David| title = Ada to Zembla: The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov| location = Edinburgh, Scotland| date = 2022}} *{{Cite book| publisher = Princeton University Press| isbn = 978-0-691-00632-1| last = Wood| first = Michael| title = The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction| location = Princeton, N.J| date = 1995}} *{{Cite book| edition = 1st| publisher = W.W. Norton & Co| isbn = 978-0-393-07992-0| last = Azam Zanganeh| first = Lila| title = The enchanter: Nabokov and happiness| location = New York| date = 2011| url = https://archive.org/details/enchanternabokov0000azam}} {{Refend}} ===Bibliography=== * Alexandrov, Vladimir E., ed. ''The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov''. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. {{ISBN|0-8153-0354-8}}. * Funke, Sarah. ''Véra's Butterflies: First Editions by Vladimir Nabokov Inscribed to his Wife''. New York: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 1999. {{ISBN|0-9654020-1-0}}. * Juliar, Michael. ''Vladimir Nabokov: A Descriptive Bibliography''. New York: [[Garland Publishing]], 1986. {{ISBN|0-8240-8590-6}}. * [[Manuel Vázquez Montalbán|Montalbán, Manuel Vázquez]]; [[Willi Glasauer|Glasauer, Willi]]. ''Escenas de la Literatura Universal y Retratos de Grandes Autores''. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores, 1988. ===Media adaptations=== * [[Peter Medak]]'s short television film, ''Nabokov on Kafka'', is a [[Adaptation (arts)|dramatisation]] of Nabokov's lectures on [[Franz Kafka]]'s ''[[The Metamorphosis]]''. The part of Nabokov is played by [[Christopher Plummer]]. *Nabokov makes three cameo appearances, at widely scattered points in his life, in [[W. G. Sebald]]'s ''[[The Emigrants (Sebald novel)|The Emigrants]]''.<!--<ref name="Cohen"/>--> * See ''[[Lolita]]''. * In 1972 the novel ''[[King, Queen, Knave]]'' was released as a [[King, Queen, Knave (film)|movie]] directed by [[Jerzy Skolimowski]] and starring [[Gina Lollobrigida]], [[David Niven]] and [[John Moulder-Brown]]. * In 1978 the novel ''[[Despair (novel)|Despair]]'' was adapted by [[Tom Stoppard]] for the movie directed by [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]]. * In 1986 his first novel ''[[Mary (novel)|Mary]]'' (in Russian ''Maschenka'') was loosely adapted for the movie ''Maschenka'', starring [[Cary Elwes]]. * The novel ''[[The Defense]]'' was adapted as a feature film, ''[[The Luzhin Defence]]'', in 2000 by director Marleen Gorris. The film starred John Turturro and Emily Watson. ===Entomology=== * Johnson, Kurt, and Steve Coates. ''Nabokov's blues: The scientific odyssey of a literary genius''. New York: McGraw-Hill. {{ISBN|0-07-137330-6}} (very accessibly written) * Sartori, Michel, ed. ''Les Papillons de Nabokov'' [The butterflies of Nabokov]. Lausanne: Musée cantonal de Zoologie, 1993. {{ISBN|2-9700051-0-7}} (exhibition catalogue, primarily in English) * Zimmer, Dieter E. ''A Guide to Nabokov's Butterflies and Moths''. Privately published, 2001. {{ISBN|3-00-007609-3}} (web page) ===Other=== * Deroy, Chloé, ''Vladimir Nabokov, Icare russe et Phénix américain'' (2010). Dijon: EUD * Gezari, Janet K.; Wimsatt, W. K., [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2929973 "Vladimir Nabokov: More Chess Problems and the Novel"], ''Yale French Studies'', No. 58, In Memory of Jacques Ehrmann: Inside Play Outside Game (1979), pp. 102–115, Yale University Press.
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