Dear Ingibjorg,
At the 2000 Nabokov Conference held in April
at the VN museum a paper was presented: "Vladimir Nabokov i Roman
Yakobson" (Yu. V. Safina, Poland). For the program of that
year's Nabokovskie Chteniya, see here : http://www.nabokovmuseum.org/PDF/readings2000.pdf.
By the way, in the famous Jules Verne novel, the
journey to the center of the world begins in Iceland.
While we are speaking of islands, may
I point out that the action in another Jules Verne novel, "The Children of
Captain Grant" (known on Antiterra as Microgalaxies, by Captain Grant),
begins in Auckland, New Zealand.
Also, let me add (for the benefit of Jansy Mello)
that Karafuto (Sakhalin) means "the Chinese island" in Japanese.
greetings from slushy and dark St.
Petersburg,
Alexey