Admin Table of Contents
When did Nabokov die?
July 2, 1977
Vladimir Nabokov/Date of death
Vladimir Nabokov, in full Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, (born April 22, 1899, St. Petersburg, Russia—died July 2, 1977, Montreux, Switzerland), Russian-born American novelist and critic, the foremost of the post-1917 émigré authors.
Was Nabokov a genius?
Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius. In spite of lacking conventional academic credentials, Nabokov was able to find employment as a university teacher of Russian and comparative literature, first at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and from 1948 at Cornell University in upstate New York.
Was Nabokov married?
Véra Nabokovm. 1925–1977
Vladimir Nabokov/Spouse
Did Vladimir Nabokov cheat on his wife?
Nabokov wrote his novels in the expectation that he would never make a living from them. The one known affair, and one that had briefly threatened the Nabokov marriage, was with Irina Guadanini, whom he met in Paris in 1936, and with whom he subsequently fell in love.
Why is Nabokov great?
Nabokov’s novels reflect his intellectual depth; they show a spiritually rich man experiencing issues with the vulgarity of the external world. They are highly metaphysical, traveling between Nabokov’s imagination, real locations in Berlin, memories of his native country and the world of ordinary people.
When was Vladimir Nabokov born and when did he die?
Nabokov in Montreux, 1973. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (/nəˈbɒkəf, -ˈbɔː-/; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков [vɫɐˈdʲimʲɪr nɐˈbokəf] ( listen), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977) was a Russian novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.
How are characters killed in Vladimir Nabokov’s books?
Nabokov featured this mistaken, violent death repeatedly in his fiction, where characters would meet their deaths under accidental terms. (On one interpretation of his novel Pale Fire, for example, an assassin mistakenly kills the poet John Shade when his actual target is a fugitive European monarch.)
Where did Vladimir Nabokov work as an entomologist?
The Nabokovs settled in Manhattan and Vladimir began volunteer work as an entomologist at the American Museum of Natural History. Nabokov joined the staff of Wellesley College in 1941 as resident lecturer in comparative literature.
Where did Vladimir Nabokov go to college after WW1?
After the withdrawal of the German Army in November 1918 and the defeat of the White Army (early 1919), the Nabokovs sought exile in western Europe. They settled briefly in England and Vladimir enrolled in Trinity College of the University of Cambridge, first studying zoology, then Slavic and Romance languages.