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Vladimir Nabokov

steffee said:
Hehe, Nabokov having a blog, and posting on a forum. Imagine that!! :D :D

I reckon he would love this thread :D
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He said in one interview he didn't type, so... I don't know what he would have done. :D
 
Madeline said:
He said in one interview he didn't type, so... I don't know what he would have done. :D
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Oh he would have a secretary to type for him. He'd just sit there in fits of laughter at what we all say about him. :D :D
 
Kenny wrote-*Urgent testosterone injection required in Nabakov thread*
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LOL! Undoubtedly Peder is over at Borders glomming coffee and books! :rolleyes: Or has decided to run away with the Circus.............oh, wait, my mistake, we are the Circus! Well, anyway

Hurry Up Peder!

Oh! I like that "Book Antiqua" script! :p
 
steffee said:
Oh he would have a secretary to type for him. He'd just sit there in fits of laughter at what we all say about him. :D :D
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Or Vera would be vetting, and typing.......:cool: :rolleyes:
 
Rotten News

OK y'all. Bad News. Peder's keyboard had gone into some sort of spastic creepness and will be out of commission for awhile. :( :( :mad:
He is bringing it in to be fixed, and hopefully it'll be asap.
 
The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov, Edited by Julian W. Connolly

The quote from VN at the beginning of Chap 9, p.151 speaks to the language qualities of Nabokov as well.
Between the ages of ten and fifteen in St. Petersburg, I must have read more fiction and poetry--English, Russian and French--than in any other five-year period of my life...In otherwords, I was a perfectly normal trilingual child in a family with a large library. VN, SO, 42-43
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This particular chapter covers the transition from Sirin to Nabokov.
 
Searching out Nabokov is new to me and if you've seen this before, well, maybe it will refresh your memory :)
I was looking for his complete works, and I assumed this is the list. Please let me know if you think it's complete.

http://www.hyenaproductions.com/whois+june2004.htm

The Works of Nabokov
NOVELS
Mary (1926)
King, Queen, Knave (1928)
The Luzhin Defense (1930)
Glory (1932)
Laughter in the Dark (1932)
Despair (1934)
The Gift (1938)
Invitation to a Beheading (1938)
The Enchanter (1939)
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941)
Bend Sinister (1947)
Lolita (1955)
Pnin (1957)
Pale Fire (1962)
Ada, Or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969)
Transparent Things (1972)
Look at the Harlequins! (1974)
The Original of Laura (1976)
COLLECTIONS
The Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
Tyrants Destroyed: And Other Stories (1981)
The Man from USSR: And Other Plays (1984)
Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings (2000)
ANTHOLOGIES CONTAINING NABOKOV STORIES
More Stories Strange and Sinister (1967)
The 7th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1971)
A Century of Short Stories (1977)
Black Water (1984)
SHORT STORIES
First Love (1909)
Spring in Fialta (1938)
The Visit to the Museum (1958)
 
Madeline No, I at least had not seen that article, and really enjoyed reading it! Thanks for posting it! The only novel I see missing for sure is The Eye, copyrighted 1965. As far as all the "collections", who knows? :) :eek: I do have one called The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov which if I remember correctly is all of his short stories placed in chronological order. But it looks like a good list.

If I could suggest, read Vera by Stacey Schiff. Its his wife's biography, but to read it its the same as reading his, as they were so close for all of their married life that one is intertwined with the other. Once I started, I could hardly put it down. StillILearn just finished it recently, and Peder read it sometime last year. Great insights into Nabokov.
Also, Brian Boyd wrote so much on Nabokov, and StillILearn and I have Selected Letters 1940-1977 that are such an insight into his character. And really laugh out loud funny!

Lets face it!, Nabokov is a never ending joy! :D
 
Madeline
I am very intrigued by the last title that is in the Novel section of the list in your post. The Original of Laura. I thought first of all of the movie with Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, but natrually thats not it, but I cannot find anything on Amazon to match up with that title for Nabokov.

Wait, I'm going to look one place.....I checked on the Zembla site that Peder posted at the beginning of this thread. Its an unfinished :)( ) work of VN's.

Whew! Thought I'd lost my slender grip on reality...;)
 
steffee said:
You were starting to panic that there might actually be a book you don't own, Pontalba LOL ;) :D :D
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Its frightening isn't it? :eek: :rolleyes: :cool: :D :p :eek:

Received Look at the Harlequins! today. Thats the last of the novels. :eek:
Now to settle down and actually read all of them! I am working on the reread of Pnin.

Course I did go to the second hand book store today...I'll post the list on the Recently Purchased. :rolleyes:
 
pontalba said:
Madeline
I am very intrigued by the last title that is in the Novel section of the list in your post. The Original of Laura. I thought first of all of the movie with Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, but natrually thats not it, but I cannot find anything on Amazon to match up with that title for Nabokov.

Wait, I'm going to look one place.....I checked on the Zembla site that Peder posted at the beginning of this thread. Its an unfinished :)( ) work of VN's.

Whew! Thought I'd lost my slender grip on reality...;)
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You be better at it than me, your right, it was unfinished.
The Original of Laura
 
Madeline said:
You be better at it than me, your right, it was unfinished.
The Original of Laura
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Nonsense! As Steffee with so much insight pointed out.....I had to find out if there was another novel I'd missed! LOL :D So I was somewhat like the dog with the proverbial bone.....gnawed at it until I came up with it....plus it was in the link that Peder so kindly provided! Hes better at it than any of us. :cool:
 
I've just about finished my second reading of Pnin. What about you guys?
SIL Did you ever finish Mary Queen of Scotland.....? Your very interesting "currently reading" title led me to believe you were reading concurrently?

Steffee? I thought you said you'd received Pnin. And I think you, Madeline were going to purchase it as well. That leaves Breaca. I believe you'll be getting it soon?
I'm pretty sure Peder has finished reading it.......again (he was in the midst of it a few days ago)! LOL We will have a time catching up with him!

Just trying to see where we are in the stream of time....;)
 
I received my book on Saturday. I've started it, 16 pages of introduction (after 6 pages I thought I would come back to it and wanted to get started reading the book, 6 pages of chronology (I skipped that too).:eek:

There's only 143 pages, but the print is very small (or smaller than I'm used to). I'm still on chapter I and Pnin is wearing me out.:D I've never heard of a person so ______ (you know) :D

I thought 143 pages would be a quick read, but I find it's not.

I'll get farther along today. If you want to start discussing Pnin, I'll tag along and learn. I don't think discussion would interfere with reading the book, I think it would help me. He is the most frustrating character I think I've ever read about.:D :D :D But I like him.:)
 
Wow Madeline! My copy doesn't have all that! Read it by all means!! Perhaps it will help solve the puzzle. :cool: Go slowly, and ya have to pay attention with VN!:D

As soon as everyone has finished reading and Peder's machine is back up to snuff, we can probably begin. I re-read most of it last night, and I think I know whats going on, but have to verify. :rolleyes:
But I don't think Breaca has begun yet. So....perhaps late in the week? or the weekend. See what happens.

Madeline Maybe you could share some quotes from the introduction with us? :cool:
 
pontalba said:
Wow Madeline! My copy doesn't have all that! Read it by all means!! Perhaps it will help solve the puzzle.
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I don't understand "solve the Puzzle". What will I be looking for?
 
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