I'd suggest that Alexander Dolinin's work is very important in the context
of contemporary Russian culture in that it forms the basis of a 'Russian'
understanding of VN's work (which does not prevent it from being interesting
to non-Slavists). There is, if you will, a cultural meaning to Dolinin's
work.
Dear Sergey Karpukhin,
As a non Slavist (well nearly non Slavist) I can back up your claim. My copy of the Cambridge Companion arrived on Friday and I read the Dolinin piece with great interest. He does contribute a cultural context to Nabokov's work that I had not really seen it in before.
Carolyn