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Authors: Robert Roper
Nabokov in America (68 page)
Whitman, Walt,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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The Wife of Martin Guerre
(Lewis),
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n
Wilder, Billy,
(1)
Wilder, Thornton,
(1)
Wilson, Edmund,
(1)
The American Jitters
,
(1)
Apologies to the Iroquois
,
(1)
appearance of,
(1)n
and
Bend Sinister
,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)
,
(4)
,
(5)
career blossoming of late 50s,
(1)
character of,
(1)
n
To the Finland Station
,
(1)
,
(2)
Great Depression and,
(1)
literary connections of,
(1)
and
Lolita
, writing of,
(1)
marriage to Mary McCarthy,
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Memoirs of Hecate County
,
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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,
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n
and Nabokov, expectations for,
(1)
Nabokov dream about,
(1)
Nabokov’s comments on essays by,
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,
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Nabokov’s early literary connections and,
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,
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,
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,
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n
Nabokov’s falling-out with,
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,
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n
Nabokov’s friendship with,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Nabokov’s gratitude to,
(1)
Nabokov’s
New Yorker
deal and,
(1)
on Nabokov’s
oeuvre
,
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,
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,
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n
Nabokov’s respect for,
(1)
Nabokov’s study of American literature and,
(1)
,
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n
Nabokov’s submission of work for comment by,
(1)
,
(2)
n
on Nabokov’s success,
(1)
n
and
The New Yorker
,
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,
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,
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,
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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
on
Pale Fire
,
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n
Patriotic Gore
,
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on
Pnin
,
(1)
political views, Nabokov and,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)
proposed collaboration with Nabokov,
(1)
The Scrolls from the Dead Sea
,
(1)
and translation of Nabokov’s
The Gift
,
(1)
visit to Nabokovs in Switzerland,
(1)
,
(2)
A Window on Russia
,
(1)
Wilson, Nabokov’s correspondence with
on California,
(1)
congenial tone of,
(1)
on
Eugene Onegin
,
(1)
on fans, letters from,
(1)
on financial woes,
(1)
introductory letter,
(1)
on “Lance,”
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n
on linguistic precision,
(1)
on McCarthy’s review of Wilder,
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on mountain climbing,
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on Nabokov’s early lectures,
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on Nabokov’s employment,
(1)
publication of,
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n
on Tolstoy,
(1)
on Twain,
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on Western novels,
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n
on Western travels,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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n
on writing projects,
(1)
Winner Take Nothing
(Hemingway),
(1)
Winters, Yvor,
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n
World War II
death of Sergei Nabokov and,
(1)
Nabokov’s arrival in U.S. and,
(1)
n
Nabokovs’ flight from,
(1)
Nazi roundups of Jews and,
(1)
and Soviet Union, Nabokov on,
(1)
writing career in Europe,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)
writing career in U.S.
and audience, building of,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)
as basis of reputation,
(1)
connections and early publications,
(1)
,
(2)
,
(3)
,
(4)
,
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n
and critiques of contemporary writers,
(1)n
,
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,
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,
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n
desire for commercial success in,
(1)
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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early critical reception,
(1)
early U.S. publisher rejections,
(1)
,
(2)
meteoric rise,
(1)
Nabokov’s promotion efforts,
(1)
,
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parallels to Salinger’s career,
(1)
poor sales of early publications,
(1)
successes, Nabokov’s recounting of,
(1)
,
(2)
turn to American fiction,
(1)
writing style of Nabokov.
See also
detail, Nabokov’s appetite for
appealing aspects of,
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n
closeness of mind to mind in,
(1)
,
(2)
conscious literary echoes in,
(1)
density of references in,
(1)
,
(2)
,
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influences on,
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n
in
Laughter in the Dark
,
(1)
metaphor and comparison in,
(1)
as satire, Nabokov’s rejection of term,
(1)
and severing of text from reality,
(1)
struggle to define,
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n
Wyoming
Disappointment Peak, Dimitri’s attempted climb of,
(1)
,
(2)
,
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n
mountains of, as attraction,
(1)n
Nabokovs’ pleasure in isolation of,
(1)
Nabokovs’ visits to,
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,
(2)n
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Yanovsky, V. S.,
(1)
Yosemite National Park,
(1)
history of,
(1)
Nabokovs’ trip to (1941),
(1)
notable sites and visitors,
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U.S. automobile culture and,
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,
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,
(3)
BY
THE SAME AUTHOR
Nonfiction
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A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Robert Roper has won awards for his fiction and nonfiction alike. His previous works of nonfiction include
Now the Drum of War
, a biography of Walt Whitman and his brothers in the Civil War, and
Fatal Mountaineer
, a biography of American climber-philosopher Willi Unsoeld, which won the 2002 Boardman Tasker Prize from the British Alpine Club. His works of fiction include
Cuervo Tales
, a
New York Times
Notable Book, and, most recently,
The Savage Professor
, a novel. He has won prizes or grants from the NEA, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Joseph Henry Jackson competition, and the Royal Geographical Society of London. His journalism appears in the
New York Times
, the
Los Angeles Times
,
American Scholar
,
Outside
, and other publications. He lives in California.
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Excerpts from
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940–1971
, by Edmund Wilson, copyright © 1979 The Estate of Edmund Wilson, used by permission of the Wylie Agency LLC. Excerpts from
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya
by Vladimir Nabokov, copyright © 1979 The Estate of Vladimir Nabokov, used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC. Excerpts from Dear Bunny,
Dear Volodya reprinted
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Excerpts of unpublished letters credited to The Estate of Vladimir Nabokov are from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Copyright © The Estate of Vladmir Nabokov. Used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
Excerpts from
Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940–1977
, edited by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew Bruccoli. Copyright © 1989 by the Article 3b Trust Under the Will of Vladimir Nabokov. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
A portion of chapter 7 of this book appeared in slightly different form in
The American Scholar
, Summer 2015. A portion of chapter 5 appeared in slightly different form in
The Hopkins Review
, volume 8, number 2, 2015.
ISBN: HB: 978-0-8027-4363-3
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Nabokov in America: on the road to Lolita / Robert Roper.
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ISBN 978-0-8027-4363-3 (hardback) 978-1-63286-086-6 (ebook)
1. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899–1977. 2. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899–1977—Homes and haunts—United States. 3. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899–1977—Travel—West (U.S.) 4. West (U.S.)—Description and travel. 5. Authors, Russian—20th century—Biography. 6. Authors, American—20th century—Biography. I. Title. II. Title: On the road to Lolita.
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