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Introducing a new feature: read classic materials from the archives of the print version of The Nabokovian. Selected by the site's editors, contents will be featured free of charge and will vary quarterly. Full access to all of the print and electronic issues of The Nabokovian are available on this site to members of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society (IVNS). To join, please go here.
Our second feature is Nabokov's poem "Shakespeare," translated by Dmitri Nabokov. Enjoy your reading!
An exhibition entitled "Набоков. Возвращение." (Nabokov.The Return.) was opened on November 12, 2021 at the Pushkinskii Dom (Pushkin House) Museum (officially the Institute of Russian Literature) in St. Petersburg, to celebrate the arrival of the last tranche of important Nabokoviana (books, manuscripts, letters, memorabilia) remaining after the death of Dmitri Nabokov in 2012.
The Fall 2021 edition of The Nabokovian: Notes and Brief Commentaries is now posted!
Dear Nabokovians,
The Annotations for Ada Pt 2 Ch 6 (Ada's reunion with Van in Manhattan) are now available here on this website, a much shorter set of annotations than the last instalment. The notes have now reached more than 2/3 of the way through the novel.
And simultaneously the next instalment due for release on AdaOnline, Part 2 Chapter 4 (the lecture on dreams) is now online here.
Dear All:
Stanislav Shvabrin's talk, which could not take place on November 16 due to technical issues, has been rescheduled for Thursday, November 18, 8 pm SPb time (12 pm EST). Organized by Pushkinskii Dom, the talk will be on the subject of Nabokov and Jules Supervielle. The seminar proceedings will be in Russian.
If you wish to watch the seminar, please watch on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d4Cv75PjYE
With best wishes to all,
Tatiana Ponomareva
From Julie Loison-Charles, President of Les Chercheurs Enchantés:
Unfortunately the international version of the Lolita documentary is not ready yet but the director has given us a link to the original version (all French) that members outside of France can now open: https://vimeo.com/624543920/fc37d9d250
Artois Presses Université presents a bilingual collection of essays titled Vladimir Nabokov and Translation / Vladimir Nabokov et la traduction, edited by Julie Loison-Charles and Stanislav Shvabrin.
Table of Contents:
Julie Loison-Charles et Stanislav Shvabrin
Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era
Edited with an introduction by Eléna Rakhimova-Sommers
With contributions by Eléna Sommers, Charles Byrd, Francesca Capossela, Julian W. Connolly, Anne Dwyer, Marilyn Edelstein, Eric Naiman, José Vergara, Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya and Alisa Zhulina
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021
From Publisher's Description:
Nabokov's poem «The Man of To-morrow's Lament» (1942) is published for the first time with commentary by Andrei Babikov. Times Literary Supplement, March 5, 2021, p. 15.
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