Jansy Mello sends the following link to a Times Topics entry on VN:

 

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/vladimir_nabokov/index.html

 Born Again in a Second Language
By COSTICA BRADATAN
To abandon your native tongue and adopt another is to dismantle yourself, piece by piece, and then to put yourself together again in a different form.

August 04, 2013, Sunday