Nabokov's World

JANE GRAYSON is Lecturer in Russian language and literature at SSEES, University College London. Her publications include Nabokov Translated: A Comparison of Nabokov's Russian and English Prose, Nikolay Gogol: Text and Context (co-edited with Faith Wigzell), Ideology in Russian Literature (co-edited with Richard Freeborn) and numerous articles on twentieth-century Russian and Soviet literature. - ARNOLD MCMILLIN, Professor of Russian Literature at SSEES, University College London has written extensively on Belarusian and Russian language and literature. His latest monograph is Belarusian Literature in the 1950s and 60s: Release and Renewal. - PRISCILLA MEYER is Professor of Russian at Wesleyan University and the author of Find What the Sailor Has Hidden: Vladimir Nabokov's 'Pale Fire' and other articles on Nabokov.

'Exceptional in quality of discussion and analysis...simultaneously lively, important and interesting to a wide range of readers.' - Professor Franklain D. Reeve, Chair of Letters, Wesleyan University, Middletown '...high quality of contributions not only ensure its utility but make it a pleasure to peruse as well.' - Julian W. Connolly, Slavic Review

• Preface Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations Transliteration List of Illustrations Introduction: The Shape of Nabokov's World; J.Grayson Prologue: The Otherworld; B.Boyd & D.Barton Johnson 'Splendid Insincerity' as 'Utmost Truthfulness': Nabokov and the Claims of the Real; Z.Kuzmanovich Mimicry in Nature and Art; D.Zimmer Nabokov and Tolstoi: Notes on Allusions and Parallels; V.Alexandrov Vladimir Nabokov and Walter de la Mare's 'Otherworld'; D.Barton Johnson Dolorous Haze, Hazel Shade: Nabokov and the Spirits; P.Meyer Transparent Things and Opaque Words; C.Lock Nabokov, Mach and Monism; S.H.Blackwell Nabokov and Bergson on Duration and Reflexivity; L.Toker Nabokov's Last Laughs; P.B.Grant Martin, Darwin, Malory and Pushkin: The Anglo-Russian Culture of Glory; C.Nichol Writing and Erasure, or Nabokov's Other Texts; M.Couturier The Wandering Jew as a Metaphor for Memory in Nabokov's Poetry and Prose of the 1920s and 1930s; O.Skonechnaia The Double Exile of Vladimir Nabokov; Z.Zinik L'Envoi: Shakespeare; V.Nabokov , translation by D.Nabokov Select Bibliography Index