Bibliographic title
Aurelian i Eleonora, ili Gde Nabokov lovil svoikh babochek
Periodical or collection
Novyi Zhurnal (The New Review)
Periodical issue
no. 123
Page(s)
205-212
Publication year
Abstract
“Links VN's use of butterflies (and their metamorphosis) to Goethe's Faust via the Russian Symbolists, esp. V. Ivanov and the formula 'a realibus ad realiora' which VN assertedly encodes in the terms 'Aurelian & Eleonora' in the story 'The Aurelian.' Ingenious but forced." (DBJ)