Nabokov in America (66 page)

in Utah,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)

in Yosemite National Park,
(1)

young adulthood,
(1)

youthful indiscretions of,
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,
(2)

Nabokov, Elena (sister), Nabokov’s correspondence with,
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,
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,
(3)
,
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,
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,
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,
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Nabokov, Elena Ivanovna (mother),
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,
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,
(3)
n

Nabokov, Kirill (brother),
(1)

Nabokov, Natalie (cousin’s ex-wife),
(1)

Nabokov, Nicolas (cousin)

acculturation of,
(1)
,
(2)n

anti-Soviet activism of,
(1)
n

association with Nabokov’s father,
(1)
n

FBI file on,
(1)
n

help finding work for Nabokov,
(1)

on Jannelli,
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literary career of,
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,
(2)

as model of émigré success,
(1)
,
(2)n

and Nabokov’s hiring at Cornell,
(1)

Wilson and,
(1)

Nabokov, Peter (cousin),
(1)
n,
(2)
n

Nabokov, Sergei (brother),
(1)

Nabokov, Véra Evseevna (wife)

appearance and demeanor of,
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,
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,
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in Berlin, dangers faced by,
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,
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,
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in Cambridge,
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,
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n

cancer scare (1954),
(1)

character of,
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comments on essays by Wilson,
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and Dmitri,
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,
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,
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,
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and dreams, recording of,
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and drive from New York to California (1941),
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,
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,
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driving lessons for,
(1)

employment,
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,
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,
(3)

and family poverty, efforts to mask,
(1)

and flight from Germany,
(1)

friends of,
(1)

illness after arrival in U.S.,
(1)

as Jew,
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,
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,
(3)
n

literary mind of,
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and
Lolita

business matters surrounding,
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defense of,
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,
(2)
n

efforts to publish,
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,
(2)
n

events surrounding publication of,
(1)

Nabokov’s celebrity from,
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Nabokov’s efforts to burn drafts of,
(1)

recording of events surrounding,
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,
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marriage to Nabokov, happiness of,
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,
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,
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,
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n

on Mintons’ marriage troubles,
(1)

on move to America,
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Nabokov’s affairs and,
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and Nabokov’s business matters,
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,
(2)
n,
(3)
n

on Nabokov’s butterfly study,
(1)

Nabokov’s CBC interview and,
(1)

Nabokov’s correspondence with,
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,
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,
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in Nabokov’s dreams,
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,
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on Nabokov’s work,
(1)

and pleasure in isolation,
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political views of,
(1)

search for Boston apartment,
(1)

support for Nabokov’s writing career,
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,
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,
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n

in Tennessee,
(1)

translations of Nabokov’s works by,
(1)

and trip to U.S.,
(1)
n

and turmoil of 1960s, views on,
(1)

and Western U.S., family trips to,
(1)
,
(2)

Colorado,
(1)

Utah,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)
,
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,
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,
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and Wilson,
(1)
,
(2)

Nabokov, Vladimir Dmitrievich (V.D., father)

as butterfly enthusiast,
(1)n

career of,
(1)
n

and émigré support for Nabokov,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)

as friend of Tolstoy,
(1)

Jewish friends’ gratitude toward,
(1)
,
(2)

literary review founded by,
(1)

murder of,
(1)
,
(2)

and Nabokov’s anti-Bolshevism,
(1)

Nicolas Nabokov and,
(1)
n

opposition to Russian pogroms,
(1)

punishment for pogrom opposition,
(1)

national parks

as antithesis of modernism,
(1)
,
(2)n

building style in,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)

Nabokov’s attraction to,
(1)

visits to in
Lolita
,
(1)n

New Directions Press,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)
,
(4)

New Hampshire, Nabokovs in,
(1)

New Mexico, Nabokovs in,
(1)
,
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,
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,
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,
(5)

The New Republic
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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New York

Nabokov’s arrival in,
(1)

Nabokov’s residences in,
(1)
,
(2)

The New Yorker

on Andrey Avinoff,
(1)
n

editing of Nabokov by,
(1)
,
(2)
n

and
Lolita
,
(1)

Nabokov’s fan base built from,
(1)

Nabokov’s financial arrangement with,
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,
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,
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,
(4)

Nabokov’s review of
Lolita
in,
(1)
n

Nabokov’s stories published in,
(1)
,
(2)

Pnin
chapters and,
(1)
,
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,
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n

Speak, Memory
chapters published in,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Wilson and,
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n

New York Review of Books
,
(1)
,
(2)

New York Times
,
(1)
,
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,
(3)
,
(4)
,
(5)

Nikolai Gogol
(Nabokov)

central points about literature in,
(1)

as primer in reading Nabokov,
(1)n

publication of,
(1)
,
(2)

publisher’s concerns about,
(1)
,
(2)

revisions in, at publisher’s request,
(1)

submission of to Wilson for comment,
(1)

and translations of Gogol, poor quality of,
(1)
,
(2)n
,
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,
(4)

on Utah, scenic views on,
(1)

Wilson on,
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writing of,
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,
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,
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,
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O’Neil, Paul,
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“One Reader Writes” (Hemingway),
(1)

Oregon, Nabokovs in,
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Pale Fire
(Nabokov).
See also
Kinbote, Charles; Shade, John

American images pervading,
(1)

density of references in,
(1)

echoes linking Shade’s poem and Kinbote’s life story,
(1)

images of reflection in,
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innovative structure of,
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jumping between notes in,
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as metaphor,
(1)

Nabokov as presence in,
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,
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,
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,
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Nabokov on interpretation of,
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n

Nabokov’s distance from evil in,
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setting of,
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,
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slain waxwing image in,
(1)

spiritualism in,
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,
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,
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,
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text–commentary relationship, as issue,
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Wilson on,
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n

writing of,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
(6)

“Pale Fire” (Shade)

echoes of Nabokov’s beliefs in,
(1)

Kinbote’s additions to,
(1)
n

Kinbote’s hijacking of,
(1)

literary echoes in,
(1)
,
(2)

metaphysic developed in,
(1)

Nabokov’s views on,
(1)
n

and poet’s creativity, higher implications of,
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,
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,
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,
(4)

on Shade’s daughter’s suicide,
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,
(2)
,
(3)

spiritual dimension in,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)

as study of Shade’s mental crisis,
(1)

style of,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)

parents of Nabokov.
See also
Nabokov, Elena Ivanovna (mother); Nabokov, Vladimir Dmitrievich (V. D., father)

as Anglophiles,
(1)
,
(2)

as intellectual elites,
(1)

interest in entomology,
(1)

Pasternak, Boris,
(1)
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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n

pedophilia.
See also
sexual predation of girls

as issue in U.S. culture,
Lolita
and,
(1)

Nabokov’s research on for
Lolita
,
(1)
,
(2)

Peyton Place
(Metalious),
(1)

Playboy
magazine,
(1)

plot in Nabokov

Pnin
and,
(1)

Wilson on,
(1)

Pnin
(Nabokov).
See also
Pnin, Timofey P.; VN

aquamarine bowl as symbol in,
(1)

Berkman on,
(1)

and commercial success, hopes for,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)

density of references in,
(1)

elements from Nabokov’s life in,
(1)
,
(2)

emotional disappointments of,
(1)
,
(2)

ending of,
(1)

higher realm implied in,
(1)

housewarming scene,
(1)

Mira Belochkin in,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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n

Nabokov on,
(1)

Nabokov’s cruelty and,
(1)

Nabokov’s distance from evil in,
(1)

New Yorker
and,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)
n

and
Pale Fire
, anticipations of,
(1)

publication of,
(1)

reviews of,
(1)

shadow of impermanence over characters in,
(1)

sparsity of plot in,
(1)

stability of reality in,
(1)

structure of,
(1)

topicality of in 1950s America,
(1)
,
(2)

Viking Press’s concerns about,
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,
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,
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,
(4)
,
(5)

Wilson on,
(1)
,
(2)

writing of,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)
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writing style in,
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,
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,
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,
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Pnin, Timofey P. (character)

descriptions of,
(1)

firing and departure of,
(1)

and reality, misconceptions of,
(1)
,
(2)

reappearance in
Pale Fire
,
(1)

relationship with stepson in,
(1)
,
(2)

sources for,
(1)

spiritual beliefs of,
(1)

as sympathetic character,
(1)
,
(2)

Poe, Edgar Allan,
(1)

Poems and Problems
(Nabokov),
(1)n

political views of Nabokovs,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)
.
See also
Bolshevism, Nabokovs’ hatred of

Pound, Ezra,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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n

Proust, Marcel,
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,
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,
(3)
,
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n

Pushkin, Alexander.
See also
Eugene Onegin
(Pushkin)

French influence on,
(1)

influence on Nabokov,
(1)
,
(2)

Nabokov on,
(1)

Nabokov’s translations of,
(1)
,
(2)n

Wilson’s essays on,
(1)
,
(2)n

Putnam Press, and publication of
Lolita
,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)