Women in Nabokov’s Life and Art

Nailya Garipova teaches an M.A. course on Culture and Literature at the University of Almeria, Spain. She holds a Ph.D. in English, with a thesis on Language and Culture in Vladimir Nabokov’s Novels. She has published essays and books on Nabokov, contemporary literature and foreign language teaching.Juan José Torres Núñez teaches English and American literature at the University of Almeria, Spain. He holds a Ph.D. on Theatre Arts. He has written on various authors, including Nabokov, and co-edited the volume Estudios de literatura norteamericana: Nabokov y otros autores contemporáneos. He is the author of bilingual plays, English/Spanish, five poetry collections and a novel.

"This volume, with its diversity of topics and contributors, is highly recommended to both non-specialists and Nabokov scholars." (Luc Beaudoin, The Russian Review 2016)

• Contents: Nailya Garipova: Introduction: the gallery of Nabokov’s women – Elena Ukhova: «An ideal spouse for a writer»: the reality and myths in Véra Nabokov’s life – Alexandra Popoff: Véra’s role in Nabokov’s life and prose – Frances Peltz Assa: Remorse and Nabokov’s women – Priscilla Meyer: Carmencita: Valentina Shulgina. The evolution of Eros in Nabokov’s work – Nora Scholz: «Or of the air itself»: Nabokov’s «mothers» as bearers of spiritual understanding – Julian W. Connolly: Fetching yet faithless: problematic mistresses in Nabokov’s fiction – Alexia Gassin: The Nabokovian society woman: a Kirchner’s cocotte? – Sabina Metzger: «A weird place»: Nabokov and the topography of the foreign governess – Akiko Nakata: Narrating her own absence: the narrator and protagonist of A Slice of Life – Svetlana Stefanova Radoulska: Making sense of death: inaccessible women in Nabokov’s short stories – Ljuba Tarvi: An invisible harlequin in Nabokov’s last novel: «You» in the protagonist’s world and afterworld – Juan Ignacio Guijarro González: «Fires of my loins»: female characters in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin.