Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: ´ ´ ´, pronounced ; 22 April 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems.. multilingual Russian novelist poet and short story writer


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Quote Left The wedding was a quiet affair, and when called upon to enjoy my promotion from lodger to lover did I experience only bitterness and distaste?... Quote Right
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Quote Left My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Quote Right
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Quote Left To a joke, then, I owe my first gleam of consciousness—which again has recapitulatory implications, since the first creatures on earth to be... Quote Right
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Quote Left It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. Quote Right
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Quote Left Today one does not hear much about him.... The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will... Quote Right
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