You, Bordeaux, are like a friend / who is, in grief and in calamity, at all times, everywhere a comrade / ready to render us a service / or share our quiet leisure.

neato

Interestingly flawed discussion of Lolita by a guy with the great Nabokovian name of Leland de la Durantaye

Nabokov individually rates, grades, and responds to the contributors to a special 70th anniversary literary tribute. Highly curious to see what he implicitly endorses

1949 critical obliteration of "La Nausée" and its poor translator

Famous Wilson review skewering Pushkin's Evgenii Onegin translation

excellent source of nabokov texts in both languages

"Of course, I owe too much to the Russian language and landscape to be emotionally involved in, say, American regional literature, or Indian dances, or pumpkin pie on a spiritual plane; but I do feel a suffusion of warm, lighthearted pride when