THE NABOKOVIAN

Published semi-annually

at the University of Kansas

by the Vladimir Nabokov Society

Spring 2004

Number 52

CONTENTS

Editor: Stephen Jan Parker

The Nabokovian serves to report and stimulate Nabokov scholarship and to create a link between Nabokov scholars in the USA and abroad.

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News 3
by Stephen Jan Parker

Notes and Brief Commentaries 6
by Priscilla Meyer

"An Early Allusion to Marvell and Genesis in 6
'The Blazon'"

Christopher A. Link

'"Traditions of a Russian Family' in Nabokov's Ada" 13 Alexey Sklyarenko

"Several Comments on Invitation to a Beheading" 26 Gavriel Shapiro

'"A Likeable Little Creature': Kinbote's Cat and Fleur de Fyler" Matthew Brillinger

'"Enchanters, Artists, Madmen.' The Influence of 36
Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha on Nabokov's
Lolita

by Miriam Gottfried

Vladimir Nabokov Society Slavic Languages & Literatures

2134WescoeHall

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas 66045 USA

Annotations to Ada: 22. Part I Chapter 22 by Brian Boyd

2003 Nabokov Bibliography

by Stephen Jan Parker and Callie Barringer