Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was born in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian emigre writers.
This centaur work, half-poem, half-prose . . . is a creation of
perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth.
Pretending to be a curio, it cannot disguise the fact that it is
one of the great works of art of this century
*Mary McCarthy*
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