Vladimir Nabokov

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Author: Bessiere, Jean. Fonyi, Antonia. Troubetzkoy, Vladimir.
Title: Le double : Chamisso, Dostoievski, Maupassant, Nabokov /
etudes recueillies par Jean Bessiere ; avec la
collaboration de Antonia Fonyi, Vladimir Troubetzkoy.
Imprint: Paris : H. Champion, 1995.

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Eekman, Thomas. "Vladimir Nabokov's Poetry."
In _The Language and Verse of Russia. In
Honor of Dean S. Worth. On his Sixty-fifth Birthday_ , Eds. S.V.
Vesnina & A.A. Kovalev. Moscow: Vostochnaya
Literatura Publishers, 1995. (UCLA Slavic Studies. New Series. Vol. II.
pp. 88-100.

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Robert Michael Pyle. _Handbook for Butterfly Watchers_. NY: Houghton
Mifflin, 184 & 1992.

Pyle, who together with Brian Boyd, is currently compiling a full
collection of VN's butterfly-related writings (including much unpublished
material). The _Handbook_ contains several references to VN. In one of
them he recounts how at the end of butterfly forays with "students", he
ends their day by reading aloud a favorite butterfly essay--the sixth
chapter of VN's _Speak, Memory_.
Although not mentioning VN in the following passage, Pyle adduces
a case of what might be termed "Lepidopteral Humbertism." "So eager are
the males...that few females remain virgin past their first morning of
emergence. Certain tropical longwing males actually couple with the pupal
female just prior to her emergemence, gaining access by cutting through
the pupal shell with a genital file. The females must already be emitting
pheronomes; in any case, they are in no position to resist." (p. 141).