Volume 7 (2013)

Table of Contents



THE NOJ CONTEST RESULTS


INTERVIEW

SELLING NABOKOV
An interview with Nikki Smith


ARTICLES

Mitch Frye
PERFORMING TYRANNY, PURLOINING AUTHORITY: NABOKOV’S DICTATORS

Maxim D. Shrayer
SITES AND SOUNDS OF POMERANIA IN NABOKOV’S WORLD

Sarah Wilson
NABOKOV AND KHODASEVICH: THE LYRE LIGHTENS                                          

Mikhail Efimov
HOW THE HEAVY LYRE CAN BE PLACED IN THE CYPRESS CHEST [Rus]

Eric S. Petrie
MOONRISE OVER THE MOOR: HAZEL’S DEATH IN NABOKOV’S PALE FIRE


READING IS FUN: APPROACHES TO ANALYSIS

Special cluster on The Original of Laura
 
ED. NOTE: This is a preview only: the entire section is available in print in Shades of Laura: Vladimir Nabokov’s Last Novel The Original of Laura (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013) 
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Michael Wood 
VANISHING FRAGMENTS 

Gennady Barabtarlo
TERMINATING THE PHRASE

Ellen Pifer 
WORLDS APART: LOLITA, LAURA, AND THE SHADOWS OF DIFFERENCE 

Lara Delage-Toriel
NABOKOV’S LAST SMILE 

Michael Rodgers
THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA AND NIETZSCHE: A ZARATHUSTRAN TOOL?

Barbara Wyllie 
LOOKING FOR FLORA: DEVIANCE AND DISCLOSURE IN NABOKOV’S THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA

Paul Ardoin
READING THE POSTHUMOUS POSTMODERN: LAURA’S PRODUCTIVE FRAGMENTS


ESSAY

Vyacheslav Kuritsyn 
SWINGING AND PLUNGING [Rus]


ART

Brittany Kraus, Brent Braaten
THE LOLITA TREE: A FAMILY ROMANCE
SEE THE IMAGE


CONFERENCE

VLADIMIR NABOKOV AND FRANCE  
Paris, France (May 30 - June 1, 2013) 

Watch the Video report from the International Conference

"Nabokov and France" from Yuri Leving on Vimeo.



BOOK REVIEWS 

Paul Russell 
The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov:  A Novel 
(SAMUEL SCHUMAN)

Vladimir Nabokov, ed. and introduced by Thomas Karshan
Collected Poems; Plays (Lolita: A Screenplay, The Tragedy of Mr Morn)
(SVETLANA SKOMOROKHOVA)

Siggy Frank 
Nabokov’s Theatrical Imagination 
(JUSTINA KASPONYTE)

Ewa Mazierska 
Nabokov’s Cinematic Afterlife
(BARBARA WYLLIE)

Susan Mooney 
The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality: Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth-Century Novel
(SAMANTHA SHERRY)