The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated (11 page)

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Mary
. Berlin, 1926 (New York, 1970). A novel.

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King, Queen, Knave
. Berlin, 1928 (New York, 1968). A novel.

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The Defense
. 1929. Berlin, 1930 (New York, 1964). A novel.

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The Eye
. 1930. (New York, 1965). A short novel.

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Glory
. 1931. Paris, 1932 (New York, 1971). A novel.

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Camera Obscura
. Paris and Berlin, 1932 (London, 1936; rev., New York, 1938, as
Laughter in the Dark
). A novel.

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Despair
. 1934. Berlin, 1936 (London, 1937; rev., New York, 1966). A novel.

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Invitation to a Beheading
. 1935–1936. Berlin and Paris, 1938 (New York, 1959). A novel.

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The Gift
. 1937–1938. New York, 1952, in Russian (New York, 1963). A novel.

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The Waltz Invention
. 1938 (New York, 1966). Drama in 3 acts.

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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
. Norfolk, Conn., 1941. A novel.

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Three Russian Poets: Translations of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tiutchev
. Norfolk, Conn., 1944.

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Nikolai Gogol
. Norfolk, Conn., 1944. A critical study.

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Bend Sinister
. New York, 1947. A novel.

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Conclusive Evidence
. New York, 1951. A memoir.

Other Shores
. New York, 1954. A Russian version of
Conclusive Evidence
, rewritten and expanded rather than translated.

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Lolita
. Paris, 1955 (New York, 1958). A novel.

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Pnin
. New York, 1957. A novel.

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Lermontov.
A Hero of Our Time
. New York, 1958. A translation.

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Nabokov’s Dozen
. New York, 1958. 13 stories, 3 translated from Russian, 1 from French.

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The Song of Igor’s Campaign
. New York, 1960. A translation of the twelfth-century epic.

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Pale Fire
. New York, 1962. A novel.

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Pushkin,
Eugene Onegin
. New York, 1964. Translation and Commentary in 4 volumes.

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Speak, Memory
. New York, 1966. Definitive version of memoir originally published as
Conclusive Evidence
, including
Other Shores
and new material.

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Ada
. New York, 1969. A novel.

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Poems and Problems
. New York, 1971. 53 poems, 39 in both Russian and English, 18 chess problems.

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Transparent Things
. New York, 1972. A novel.

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A Russian Beauty and Other Stories
. 1924–1940. New York, 1973. 13 stories.

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Strong Opinions
. New York, 1973. 22 interviews, 11 letters, 9 articles, and 5 lepidoptera papers.

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Lolita: A Screenplay
. New York, 1974.

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Look at the Harlequins!
New York, 1974. A novel.

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Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories
. New York, 1975. 13 stories, 12 translated from the Russian.

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Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
. New York, 1976. 13 stories.

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Karlinsky, Simon, ed.
The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence Between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, 1940–1971
. New York, 1979.

Bowers, Fredson, ed.
Lectures on Literature
. New York, 1980.

——.
Lectures on Russian Literature
. New York, 1981.

——.
Lectures on Don Quixote
. New York, 1983.

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The Man from the USSR and Other Plays
. New York, 1984. 4 plays.

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The Enchanter
. New York, 1986. A novella.

Bruccoli, Matthew, and Dmitri Nabokov, eds.
Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940–1977
. New York, 1989.

Aldridge, A. Owen, “Lolita and
Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature
, II (Fall 1961), 20–26.

Amis, Kingsley, “She Was a Child and I Was a Child,”
The Spectator
, No. 6854 (November 6, 1959), 635–636.

Appel, Alfred, Jr., “The Art of Nabokov’s Artifice,”
Denver Quarterly
, III (Summer 1968), 25–37.

—–, “An Interview with Vladimir Nabokov,” in the Special all-Nabokov number,
Wisconsin Studies
, VIII (Spring 1967), 127–152. Reprinted in L. S. Dembo, ed.,
Nabokov: The Man and His Work
. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. Pp. 19–44. Reprinted in Nabokov,
Strong Opinions
. New York: Vintage International, 1989, pp. 62–92.

—–,
“Lolita
: The Springboard of Parody,”
Wisconsin Studies, op. cit
., 204–241. Reprinted in Dembo,
op. cit
. Pp. 106–143.

—–,
Nabokov’s Dark Cinema
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. 61–151.

Brenner, Conrad, “Nabokov: The Art of the Perverse,”
New Republic
, CXXXVIII (June 23, 1958), 18–21.

Bryer, Jackson R, and Thomas J. Bergin, Jr., “Vladimir Nabokov’s Critical Reputation in English: A Note and a Checklist,”
Wisconsin Studies, op. cit
., 312–364. Reprinted in Dembo,
op. cit
. Pp. 225–274.

Butler, Diana, “Lolita Lepidoptera,”
New World Writing
, No. 16 (1960), 58–84.

Dupee, F. W., “
Lolita
in America,”
Encounter
, XII (February 1959), 30–35.

Reprinted in
Columbia University Forum
, II (Winter 1959), 35–39.

—–, “A Preface to
Lolita,” Anchor Review
, No. 2 (1957), 1–13. Reprinted in his “
The King of the Cats” and Other Remarks on Writers and Writing
. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. Pp. 117–141. Includes review of
The Gift
.

Fiedler, Leslie A., “The Profanation of the Child,”
New Leader
, XLI (June 23, 1958), 26–29.

Field, Andrew,
Nabokov: His Life in Art
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967. Pp. 323–351.

Girodias, Maurice, “Lolita, Nabokov, and I,”
Evergreen Review
, IX (September 1965), 44–47, 89–91. Account of first publication of
Lolita;
for Nabokov’s rejoinder, see “
Lolita
and
Mr. Girodias
,”
Evergreen Review
, XI (February 1967), 37–41.

Gold, Herbert, “The Art of Fiction XL: Vladimir Nabokov, An Interview,”
Paris Review
, No. 41 (Summer-Fall 1967), 92–111.

Green, Martin, “The Morality of
Lolita,” Kenyon Review
, XXVIII (June 1966), 352–377.

Hicks, Granville, “ ‘Lolita’ and Her Problems,”
Saturday Review
, XLI (August 16, 1958), 12, 38.

Hollander, John, “The Perilous Magic of Nymphets,”
Partisan Review
, XXIII (Fall 1956), 557–560. Reprinted in Richard Kostelanetz, ed.,
On Contemporary Literature
. New York: Avon Books, 1964. Pp. 477–480.

Josipovici, G. D., “Lolita: Parody and the Pursuit of Beauty,”
Critical Quarterly
, VI (Spring 1964), 35–48.

Kael, Pauline, “Lolita,” in
I Lost It at the Movies
. New York: Bantam Books, 1966. Pp. 183–188. Reprinted in Andrew Sarris, ed.,
The Film
. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968. Pp. 11–14. The most interesting review of the film version of
Lolita
.

Meyer, Frank S., “The Strange Fate of ‘Lolita’—A Lance into Cotton Wool,”
National Review
, VI (November 22, 1958), 340–341.

Mitchell, Charles, “Mythic Seriousness in
Lolita,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language
, V (Autumn 1963), 329–343.

Nemerov, Howard, “The Morality of Art,”
Kenyon Review
, XIX (Spring 1957), 313–314, 316–321. Reprinted in his
Poetry and Fiction: Essays
. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1963. Pp. 260–269.

Phillips, Elizabeth, “The Hocus-Pocus of
Lolita,” Literature and Psychology
, X (Summer 1960), 97–101.

“
Playboy
Interview: Vladimir Nabokov,”
Playboy
, XI (January 1964), 35–41, 44–45. Reprinted in
The Twelfth Anniversary Playboy Reader
. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1965.

Prescott, Orville, “Books of The Times,”
New York Times
, August 18, 1958, p. 17.

Proffer, Carl R.,
Keys to Lolita
. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.

Rougemont, Denis de, “
Lolita
, or Scandal.” In
Love Declared—Essays on the Myths of Love
, tr. Richard Howard. New York: Pantheon Books, 1963. Pp. 48–54.

Schickel, Richard, “Nabokov’s Artistry,”
The Progressive
, XXII (November 1958), 46, 48–49.

—–, “A Review of a Novel You Can’t Buy,”
The Reporter
, XVII (November 28, 1957), 45–47.

Smith, Peter Duval, “Vladimir Nabokov on His Life and Work,”
The Listener
, LXVIII (November 22, 1962), 856–858. Text of BBC television interview. Reprinted in
Vogue
, CXLI (March 1, 1963), 152–155.

Stegner, Page,
Escape into Aesthetics: The Art of Vladimir Nabokov
. New York: Dial Press, 1966. Pp. 102–115.

Trilling, Lionel, “The Last Lover—Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘Lolita,’ ”
Griffin
, VII (August 1958), 4–21. Reprinted in
Encounter
, XI (October 1958), 9–19.

West, Rebecca, “ ‘Lolita’: A Tragic Book with a Sly Grimace,”
London Sunday Times
, November 8, 1959, p. 16.

Boyd, Brian.
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Volume I of an anticipated two-volume biography.

See also Parker, Stephen Jan, ed.
The Nabokovian
. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1984–. Earlier titled
The Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter
, 1978–1984. A semi-annual journal devoted to Nabokov studies, including bibliographies of critical studies.

Juliar, Michael.
Vladimir Nabokov: A Descriptive Bibliography
. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986.