nabokov
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illustrations from ohlala007 167 days old
[ ... ] By Vladimir Nabokov Before this house a poplar grows Well versed in dowsing, I suppose, But how it sighs! And every night A boy in black, a girl ...
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Lara’s Pages from ohlala007 410 days old
[ ... ] Karenina, Nabokov loved the line “Anna felt her eyes twinkled in the darkness” (translation is mine). It’s amazing how Leo Tolstoy could ...
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gleanings from ohlala007 774 days old
[ ... ] a platitude. Nabokov cites the short story Death in Venice as en example of a pure platitude as his compatriots used to understand it. I don’t agree ...
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Golden Age Salon from ohlala007 825 days old
[ ... ] (Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight) One more epigraph: “Crime is a malady. Open the door to the doctor.” (from an American ...
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Anthony Blanche Fan Blog from ohlala007 843 days old
Les Poetes Maudits It’s wonderful world of blogging… Someone might ask: what is Revue_Blanche? I shall begin by saying the blog’s owner is a female assistant ...
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The Original of Laura from ohlala007 867 days old
Vladimir Nabokov died on July 2, 1977. From 1960 to the end of his life he lived in the Montreux Palace Hotel in Montreux, Switzerland. The Original ...
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UN POETE MAUDIT from ohlala007 872 days old
The books that I love: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar Beloved and God: ...
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a little bit of gay literature from ohlala007 883 days old
[ ... ] The young Nabokov used to visit their salon. Look at Leon Bakst’s famous portrait in which the middle-aged Zinaida Gippius was wearing a costume ...
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essay from ohlala007 885 days old
[ ... ] comments is Nabokov’s greatest novel Pale Fire. A new Pale Fire has to be written by an American or a British writer. A British writer is better ...
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"Look at the Harlequins!" from ohlala007 899 days old
Look at the Harlequins! is one of two Nabokov’s books, which I dislike. Yet I like two little bits in the book. Here they are: Excerpt One "Stop moping!" ...
