Table of Contents - 7 Foreword - 8 Note on Abbreviations and References - 10 1 Nabokov and the Two Sister Arts - 12 2 The ‘Mad Pursuit’ in Laughter in the Dark - 31 3 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. Its Colours and Painting - 40 4 Pnin and the History of Art - 45 5 Lolita and Aubrey Beardsley - 60 6 Pale Fire Zemblematically - 68 7 Leonardo and ‘Spring in Fialta’ - 88 8 A Shimmer of Exact Details: Ada’s Art Gallery - 99 9 Ada and Bosch - 146 Appendix I: Passages in Nabokov’s Novels, Stories or Autobiography Referring or Alluding to Paintings - 168 Appendix II: Painters Mentioned or Obviously Referred to in Nabokov's Works - 179 Notes - 182 Bibliography - 198 List of Illustrations and Acknowledgements - 208 Corresponding Pages in the Volumes Published by Vintage International and Penguin Books - 213 Index of Authors - 215 Index of Artists - 220
Gerard de Vries is the leading Dutch Nabokov specialist. His writings on Nabokov have appeared in Russian Literature Triquaterly, Nabokov Studies, Revue de Litterature Comparee and The Nabokovian. D.Barton Johnson is Emeritus Professor of Russian, University of California at Santa Barbara. His publications include Worlds in Regression.: Some Novels of Vladimir Nabokov (1985) and many articles on Nabokov. Liana Ashenden, University of Cambridge, UK, wrote her MA dissertation on "Mimicry, Mimesis and Desire in Nabokov's Ada" with Brian Boyd as supervisor. She has published "Ada's Erotic Entomology" in "Nabokov Studies".
"Indispensable for Nabokov devotees" Guus Luijters, Het Parool
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