Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita er en roman af Vladimir Nabokov. Den handler om en voksen mands besættelse af en 12-årig pige. Romanen er filmatiseret to gange: I 1962 af Stanley Kubrick og i 1997 af Adrian Lyne, ligesom romanen har dannet grundlag for et skuespil fra 1981 af Edward Albee. Nabokov arbejdede på Lolita i over fire år i starten …

Pale Fire is a postmodern novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled "Pale Fire", written by the fictional John Shade, with a foreword and lengthy commentary by a neighbor and academic colleague of the poet, Charles Kinbote. Together these elements form a narrative in which both …

Pnin er en roman af Vladimir Nabokov fra 1953. Romanen er en tragisk-humoristisk og delvist selvbiografisk skildring af det Russiske emigrantmiljø i USA i midten af 1900-tallet.

Ada eller Ardor er en roman af Vladimir Nabokov fra 1969. Den er samtidig hans længste. Inspireret af den russiskfødte forfatters eksil i USA, udspiller romanens handling sig i en alternativ verden, Antiterra, hvor USA og Rusland er smeltet sammen til et land, Amerussia. Handlingen er kompleks, men centrerer sig om to …

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude," an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, …

The late Vladimir Nabokov always did things his way, and his classic autobiography is no exception. No dry recital of dates, names, and addresses for this linguistic magician--instead, Speak, Memory is a succession of lapidary episodes, in which the factoids play second fiddle to the development of Nabokov's …

Nabokov's third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is …

Laughter in the Dark is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov and serialised in Sovremennye Zapiski in 1932. The first English translation, Camera Obscura, was made by Winifred Roy and published in London in 1936 by Johnathan Long, the paperback imprint of Hutchinson Publishing, with the author credited as Vladimir …

Despair is the seventh novel by Vladimir Nabokov, originally published in Russian, serially in the politicized literary journal Sovremennye zapiski during 1934. It was then published as a book in 1936, and translated to English by the author in 1937. Most copies of the 1937 English edition were destroyed by German …

From the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales--eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time--display all the …