Dear List,
I would like some help locating a V.N. quote which I wrote down a year ago but now cannot find. I had thought the quote was in the forward to The Defence and referred to the novel as having been "written under the best possible conditions of life." I vaguely recall that this was either preceded or followed by a brief description of the Nabokov's home life in Berlin in the 30's, shortly after Dmitri was born (which, I now realize, rules out The Defence). I have searched as many of the forwards to the Russian novels as I can but can't seem to find it and would love to know that I didn't simply imagine or misattribute it.
Thank you,
-Mike Stauss
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