Writing about Fran Assa's spotting of the name "Clare Bishop" [ Cf. The Suicide of Claire Bishop - I just happened upon a novel of this title by Carmiel Banasky,  Dzanc Books, 2015. I skimmed it and could find no attribution to Nabokov, so the title is probably a coincidence.  On the other hand I haven't read it "], Mary Efremov observes simply that: "she supposedly died after giving birht if the artful brother is to be believed." This commentary inspired me to invite the VN-L participants to offer suggestions about the "fictional facts" that can be considered as unquestionable "fictional truths" in any VN's novel.

I think that there are many such facts to be marked ( as, for example, that Van and Ada are siblings) - but I'm curious about what Nablers think about how often "unreliable narrators" distort most of the information the reader gets access to.

Jansy Mello