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This is an official publication of the International Vladimir Nabokov Symposium proceedings. Most papers published on this website are in English. Several scholars requested that their papers, delivered in Russian, were published in the original. Papers in English are accompanied by their summaries in Russian and visa versa.

Several VNS participants have requested that the publication of their work online were postponed. In such cases, we published only abstracts of their papers in both languages. Most scholars have placed their e-mail address at the end of the paper for questions and comments.

All authors retain copyright to their work. For the permission to reproduce any of the papers in whole or in part please contact individual authors.


General Session:

Brian Boyd (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Nabokov as Storyteller

Alexander Dolinin (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
Stories Hidden Inside the Plot (An Approach to Vladimir Nabokov’s Poetics of Concealment)

Donald Barton Johnson (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Nabokov’s Typographic Poetics: "Transparent Things "

Boris Averin (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
Experiments with One’s Own Selves in Nabokov’s Russian and American Fiction

Alexander Zholkovsky (University of Southern California, USA)
On the Genre of Nabokov’s First Poem

Samuel Schuman (University of Minnesota, Morris, USA)
“A poem, a poem, forsooth:” Immortality and Transformation in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Nabokov’s Novels


Nabokov and the United States:

Savely Senderovich, Yelena Shvarts (Cornell University, USA)
Tongue the Punchinello (A Commentary to "Pnin")

Galya Diment (University of Washington, USA)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. Pnin in the Land of the North Americans

Eric Naiman (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Perversion in "Pnin"

Stephen H. Blackwell (University of Tennessee, USA)
Aubrey Beardsley and "Lolita"

Sarah Funke (Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., USA)
"Mirages and Nightmares”: The Narrative Lessons of "Lolita" from Novel to Script to Screen

Jenefer Coates (Middlesex University, London, UK)
La Morte d’Humbert –Nabokov’s Medieval Texts

Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College, USA)
Vladimir Nabokov’s Impact on American Post-Modernists: The Case of John Hawkes

Paul Benedict Grant (University of Glasgow, UK)
Nabokov and Transcendentalism

Juliette Taylor (University of Warwick, UK)
Nabokov’s Aesthetic of Mistranslation

Corinne Scheiner (Colorado College, USA)
In Place of a Preface: Reading the Opening Chapter of "Laughter in the Dark" as a Foreword to the English Translation


St. Petersburg and Russia in Nabokov’s Oeuvre:

Sergei Davydov (Middlebury College, USA)
Shishki on Adam’s Head: Literary Hoaxes by Khodasevich and Nabokov

Yuichi Isahaya (Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan)
Nabokov and Georgiy Ivanov –Two Conflicting Petersburgs

Ole Nyegaard (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
On Bely’s and Nabokov’s Use of Space in Fiction

Dana Dragunoiu (Princeton University, USA)
Russian Neo-Idealism and Vladimir Nabokov’s Philosophical Domain

Olga Voronina (Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Dream as a Structural Device in Pushkin, Tolstoy and Nabokov

Paul D. Morris (Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany)
The Poetry of Nabokov’s Drama "The Waltz Invention"

Stanislav Shvabrin (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Vladimir Vladimirovich N., Ivan Petrovich Pnin: an Earlier Encounter?

Vera Polischouk (Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Under the Badge of Nabokov (VN’s Influence on Modern Russian Literature)

Agnes Edel-Roy (University of Paris III, Censier, France)
The Meaning of Russianness in the Fictional System of Some of Nabokov’s “Russian” Novels

Alexei Sklyarenko (Independent Researcher, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Russian Subtexts in "Ada": Allusions to Konstantin Sluchevsky’s Work


Beyond Nabokov’s Metaphysics:

Michael Wood (Princeton University, USA)
The Politics of Zembla

Igor Smirnov (Universitaet Konstanz, Germany)
Samozvantsy [Impostors] in Nabokov’s "Despair"

Julian Connolly (University of Virginia, USA)
The Elemental Nabokov: The Role of Natural Elements in Nabokov’s Fiction

Yuri Leving (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
The Metaphysics of the Garage: Nabokov’s Automobile Aesthetics

Liudmila Ryaguzova (Kuban’ State University, Russia)
Substantial and Ontological Foundations of Nabokov’s Fiction

Jacqueline Hamrit (Universite Charles-de-Gaulle, France)
Nabokov and French Thought


Nabokov’s Butterflies:

Dieter Zimmer Translator / Editor / Commentator of Nabokov. (Berlin, Germany)
Chinese Rhubarb and Caterpillars

Victoria Alexander (Dactyl Foundation, Santa Fe Institute, USA)

Neutral Evolution, Teleology and Nabokov on Insect Mimicry


Poster Papers:

Margarit Tadevosyan (Boston College, USA)
“Thou Are Not Thou”: Nabokov and Evelyn Waugh

Daniela Monica Oancea (The University of Paris 7, France)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Child: Vladimir Nabokov and Steven Millhauser

Anita Kondoyanidi (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Transcendence of Exile: Nabokov’s St. Petersburg

Christoph Henry-Thommes (University of Mainz, Germany)
Nabokov's Neoplatonist Views of "This World" and "The Other World" in
His Poem “Death”

Juliette de Dieuleveult (Sorbonne University, France)
Proustian echoes in Nabokov’s novels : in search of the truth of art


Presentation:

 

Dieter Zimmer (Germany)
Nabokov’s Berlin