Webster's Unabridged Dictionary definition of:

Nabokovian

Pronunciation: (nab"u-kō'vē-un), [key] <http://www.infoplease.com/pronkey.html>  
˜adj.
of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of Vladimir Nabokov: a sly, Nabokovian sense of the absurd.

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Nabokov

Pronunciation: (nu-bô'kuf, nab'u-kôf", -kof"; Russ. nu-bô'kuf), [key] <http://www.infoplease.com/pronkey.html>  
˜n.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Pronunciation: (vlad'u-mēr" vlad"u-mēr'u-vich; Russ. vlu-dyē'myir vlu-dyē'myi-ru-vyich), [key] <http://www.infoplease.com/pronkey.html> 1899ˆ1977, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and poet, born in Russia.

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Sandy/DN: I’ve often wondered whether VN always pronounced ‘Nabokov’ with the Russian vowels & stresses (as shown above) — and if so, did he ever correct or comment on the quite common ‘English’  variation. Some ‘proper’  names travel as badly as some wines. My pet, irrational peeves are D-AH-ntay, and Pla-SEED-o Domingo.

Stan Kelly-Bootle

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