| Like Nabokov, whose family was similarly fallen, he displayed a complex mix of elite liberalism and disdainful conservatism. |
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| The film serves up a sugarcoated confection that will make anyone with a taste for Nabokov gag. |
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| For Pushkin's 100-page novel in verse, Nabokov filled a waist-high stack of shoeboxes with 5,000 index cards. |
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| Nabokov is their favorite writer, the convenient novelistic illustration of their theoretical axioms. |
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| Hard to believe, but after all this time as Lolita, Monica Lewinski takes one leap toward Nabokov. |
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| Dominique Nabokov saw them at an exhibit and filed a lawsuit, but ultimately lost in the countersuit. |
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| The first and last lines of Lolita make my dorsal hairs quiver, as Nabokov intended. |
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| Fitzgerald, Nabokov, Huxley, and the rest of them failed in Hollywood for a variety of reasons. |
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| Pope, Wharton, Nabokov, and Updike, to name only a handful, fail to register at all. |
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| Nabokov faced consistent pressure and four Kings power plays in the first two periods, but never cracked. |
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| Forster, Rosamond Lehmann, Vladimir Nabokov, Christopher Isherwood and Malcolm Lowry. |
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| She spends far more time disarming her reader than Nabokov or Forster. |
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| Vladimir Nabokov, asked whether sometimes his characters didn't break free of his control, replied that they were galley slaves, kept severely under his thumb at all times. |
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| The story is drenched with allusion, to Baudelaire, Duras, and, of course, with its canny names, family doppelgangers, and tragicomedic instincts, to Nabokov. |
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| But, he was talking more about Vladimir Nabokov and John Updike. |
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