epigraph by Pushkin
a chronology of Nabokov's early career
appendix A Echoes
preface and a note on the text
appendix B Deceit
chapter 1 Consciousness
appendix C Nabokov as Character
chapter 2 Patterning and Artifice
appendix D Parallel Scenes
chapter 3 Re-Creation: Memory
appendix E Marx and Freud
chapter 4 Re-Creation: Self-Creation
appendix F Parody and Poshlust
chapter 5 Artistic Reality
appendix G Echoes of Things to Come
chapter 6 Consciousness II
bibliography
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