This is an official publication of the International Vladimir Nabokov Symposium proceedings. Most papers published on this website are in English. Several scholars requested that their papers, delivered in Russian, were published in the original. Papers in English are accompanied by their summaries in Russian and visa versa. Some of the papers delivered at the Nabokov Symposium will be published in a Russian-language collection; its publication is scheduled for the summer/fall 2003. Several VNS participants have requested that the publication of their work online were postponed. In such cases, we published only abstracts of their papers in both languages. Most scholars have placed their e-mail address at the end of the paper for questions and comments. All authors retain copyright to their work. For the permission to reproduce any of the papers in whole or in part please contact individual authors. If you have any questions about this publication, please write to Olga Voronina, editor of the VNS Proceedings, at info@nabokovinrussia.org. General Session: Brian Boyd, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Nabokov as Storyteller Alexander Dolinin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Stories Hidden Inside the Plot (An Approach to Vladimir Nabokov’s Poetics of Concealment) Donald Barton Johnson, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA "Signs & Symbols": Nabokov & Iconicity Boris Averin, St. Petersburg State University, Russia Experiments with One’s Own Selves in Nabokov’s Russian and American Fiction Alexander Zholkovsky, University of Southern California, USA On the Genre of Nabokov’s First Poem Samuel Schuman, University of Minnesota, Morris, USA “A poem, a poem, forsooth:” Immortality and Transformation in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Nabokov’s Novels Nabokov and the United States: Savely Senderovich, Yelena Shvarts, Cornell University, USA Tongue the Punchinello (A Commentary to Pnin) Galya Diment, University of Washington, USA The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. Pnin in the Land of the North Americans Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley, USA Perversion in Pnin Stephen H. Blackwell, University of Tennessee, USA Aubrey Beardsley and Lolita Sarah Funke, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., USA "Mirages and Nightmares”: The Narrative Lessons of Lolita from Novel to Script to Screen Jenefer Coates, Middlesex University, London, UK La Morte d’Humbert –Nabokov’s Medieval Texts Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College, USA Vladimir Nabokov’s Impact on American Post-Modernists: The Case of John Hawkes Paul Benedict Grant, University of Glasgow, UK Nabokov and Transcendentalism Juliette Taylor, University of Warwick, UK Nabokov’s Aesthetic of Mistranslation Corinne Scheiner, Colorado College, USA In Place of a Preface: Reading the Opening Chapter of Laughter in the Dark as a Foreword to the English Translation St. Petersburg and Russia in Nabokov’s Oeuvre: Sergei Davydov, Middlebury College, USA Shishki on Adam’s Head: Literary Hoaxes by Khodasevich and Nabokov Yuichi Isahaya, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan Nabokov and Georgiy Ivanov –Two Conflicting Petersburgs Ole Nyegaard, University of Aarhus, Denmark On Bely’s and Nabokov’s Use of Space in Fiction Dana Dragunoiu, Princeton University, USA Russian Neo-Idealism and Vladimir Nabokov’s Philosophical Domain Olga Voronina, Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia Dream as a Structural Device in Pushkin, Tolstoy and Nabokov Stanislav Shvabrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Vladimir Vladimirovich N., Ivan Petrovich Pnin: an Earlier Encounter? Vera Polischouk, Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia Under the Badge of Nabokov (VN’s Influence on Modern Russian Literature) Agnes Edel-Roy, University of Paris III, Censier, France The Meaning of Russianness in the Fictional System of Some of Nabokov’s “Russian” Novels Alexei Sklyarenko, Independent Researcher, St. Petersburg, Russia Russian Subtexts in Ada: Allusions to Konstantin Sluchevsky’s Work Beyond Nabokov’s Metaphysics: Michael Wood, Princeton University, USA The Politics of Zembla Igor Smirnov, Universitaet Konstanz, Germany Samozvantsy [Impostors] in Nabokov’s Despair Julian Connolly, University of Virginia, USA The Elemental Nabokov: The Role of Natural Elements in Nabokov’s Fiction Yuri Leving, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel The Metaphysics of the Garage: Nabokov’s Automobile Aesthetics Liudmila Ryaguzova, Kuban’ State University, Russia Substantial and Ontological Foundations of Nabokov’s Fiction Jacqueline Hamrit, Universite Charles-de-Gaulle, France Nabokov and French Thought Nabokov’s Butterflies: Dieter Zimmer, Translator / Editor / Commentator of Nabokov, Berlin, Germany Chinese Rhubarb and Caterpillars Victoria Alexander, Dactyl Foundation, Santa Fe Institute, USA Neutral Evolution, Teleology and Nabokov on Insect Mimicry Poster Papers: Margarit Tadevosyan, Boston College, USA “ Thou Are Not Thou”: Nabokov and Evelyn Waugh Daniela Monica Oancea, The University of Paris 7, France A Portrait of the Artist as a Child: Vladimir Nabokov and Steven Millhauser Anita Kondoyanidi, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA Transcendence of Exile: Nabokov’s St. Petersburg Christoph Henry-Thommes, University of Mainz, Germany Nabokov's Neoplatonist Views of "This World" and "The Other World" in His Poem “Death” Juliette de Dieuleveult, Sorbonne University, France Proustian echoes in Nabokov’s novels : in search of the truth of art Presentation: Dieter Zimmer, Berlin, Germany Nabokov’s Berlin