Bibliographic title
Folding His Magic Carpet: Speak, Memory and Lolita
Publisher, city
Collection editor
Periodical or collection
Revising Nabokov Revising: Proceedings of the International Nabokov Conference
Page(s)
55-60
Publication year
Pifer attempted to trace the creative process of the nymphet by focusing on Polenka, the young daughter of the Nabokovs’ head coachman, with whom young Vladimir exchanged glances of desire. She demonstrated how in the memoir as in the novel, the triumph of memory over time’s arrow is often tinged with remorse. [MB]