Herein you'll find Nabokovian tributes -- poems, memoirs, and visuals.
Contributions are welcome.
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12 By Allison |
"...Not only was it Lolita that allowed me to see the light, but all of his other novels that have helped me stay grounded and, somehow in all their insanity, have restored mine." |
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Wowed By Elizabeth Kay Farren |
"When I am a senior I shall have read his entire body of work." |
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The Literary Circle By K.E. Frazier |
"I scanned the tables looking for books about Buddy Holly or early rock and roll (my main passion, next to literature). But I didn't find Buddy Holly. While looking through the books, I came across a fairly fat paperback book with a picture of a feet up view of a girl wearing a full skirt and saddle shoes." |
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Self - Festschrift! By J.M. Martinez | "Waxwing is close to celebrating, or has celebrated, its two year anniversary -- although it might be a year or a year and a half. I'm pretty sure it took some kind of shape in 1997. Maybe before, I don't know." |
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The Lending Library By J.M. Martinez | "The library, at any rate, was one of the few places where English books were available and, since I'd dropped out of college and was writing for a small English-language weekly which paid poorly and late, it provided me with the bulk of my reading." |
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Self - Festschrift 2! By J.M. Martinez | "Typos and solecisms still abound." |
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Ami By Anthony Robinson |
"Deftly defying my every attempt to confine her to the concrete sidewalk of my mind, she tramped straight through the grass, a fresh-legged, henna-haired, rough-hewn hunk of agate. Mine." |
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Nerd Astonishes By Christopher B. Robinson |
"...I greatly prefer this image of him to that colored-pencil-and-ink-outline visage that sometimes appears on shoddy critical editions, usually with an unconvincing 'quizzical' smile (a magnifying glass or butterfly welded incidentally in, without finesse, like the airbrushed cover of a puffy Disney video box)..." |
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By Michael Salinger |
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The Lepidopterist By Luke J. Taylor |
"I looked down to my book again and saw that a butterfly had settled on the page. I lifted the book up and tried to dislodge it, but it stayed there as if it was stuck. I blew gently and it finally flew off. "Mrs Critic watched the butterfly as it dipped and fluttered away. 'That was a Green-Veined White.'" |
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Why Nabokov? By Wim Van Hoof | "Eleven years later, I read The Defense, and promptly fell, akin to the chessplayers' fall, in a dark depressed pattern of whatchamaycallit (careful not to use Freudian terms)..." |
My Ordeal By Jacques-André Widmer |
"While they were posing obligingly on the balcony, I struggled with aperture settings and exposure length on this antiquated bulky camera I had discovered an hour beforehand. The Nabokov couple never showed any sign of impatience. I was aware I was all thumbs and this feeling did not help me at all but drove me to the verge of panic. I think I even forgot to wind the film forward after I took the first snapshot and got away with it by confessing, 'This is not my usual camera, sorry.The next photo will be better.'" |
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