Vladimir Nabokov

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.

Poems and Problems is a book by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969. It consists of: 39 poems originally written in Russian and translated by Nabokov 14 poems written in English 18 chess problems One of the 39 poems originally written in Russian, "Lilith", in 1928, can be looked at as a foreshadowing of Lolita. …