Volume 8 (2014)

Table of Contents




ARCHIVE 

"FOLDING AN UMBRELLA, NOT FINDING ITS SECRET BUTTON"
Vladimir Nabokov’s 1970 Interview to the Israeli Newspaper Ma’ariv



INTERVIEW

"I WAS STRUCK BY THE WHOLE ATMOSPHERE OF MONTREUX"
Yuri Leving’s Interview with Nurit Beretzky



INTERNATIONAL NABOKOV STUDIES IN TRANSLATION

Special Issue



Marijeta Bozovic
INTRODUCTION


ARTICLES 


DENMARK

Jens Juhl Jensen 
THE CASE OF THE MISSING LINE: NABOKOV’S MATHEMATICS IN PALE FIRE
Translated by the Author


FRANCE

Agnès Edel-Roy
THE NABOKOVIAN HEREAFTER OF FRENCH EXILE
Translated by Sarah-Louise Raillard


HUNGARY

Ferenc Takács
"SHADOW" AND "SUBSTANCE": PALE FIRE AND TIMON OF ATHENS
Translated by the Author


IRAN

Gholamreza Shafiee-Sabet and Atefeh Rabei
THE PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATING NABOKOV’S PNIN INTO PERSIAN
Translated by the Authors


ISRAEL

Evgeny Soshkin 
THE ORIGINS OF “THE POTATO ELF”
 

ITALY

Irina Marchesini
MISE EN ABÎME AND SELF-TRANSLATION: VLADIMIR NABOKOV THROUGH THE MIRROR OF HIS WORDS INSOGLIADATAI / THE EYE  
Translated by Jamie Richards
 

JAPAN

Shun’ichiro Akikusa
REVISITING NABOKOV’S THE DEFENSE AS A MORAL GAME: WHAT MADE LUZHIN COMMIT SUICIDE? 
Translated by the Author


POLAND

Mikołaj Wiśniewski
ADA: MAKE-BELIEVE STORIES 
Translated by Timothy Williams
 

RUSSIA

Maria Malikova
NABOKOV’S PHOTO-BIOGRAPHY 
Translated by Alexander Ponomariov
 

RUSSIA / USA

Alexander Dolinin
THE ART OF THE EXECUTIONER: NOTES ON THE THEME OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN NABOKOV
Translated by Keith Blasing
 

SERBIA

Violeta Stojmenovic
NABOKOV’S DUELS WITH LITERATURE
Translated by Natasha Bozovic



NOTES AND QUERIES 

Claudio Sansone
"LOLITA, LIGHT OF MY LIFE. MY SIN, MY SOUL" AND PSALM 38



MULTIMEDIA 

A Guide to Berlin
Installation Art Exhibition by Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov (Germany, 2014)



Nabokov’s Berlin: Between Pleasure and Agony 
(Dir. Yuri Leving, Canada, 2014, 18 min.)



CONFERENCE 

Tatiana Ponomareva
VLADIMIR DMITRIEVICH NABOKOV (1869-1922): FAMILY, POLITICS AND LITERATURE [Rus]
St. Petersburg, Russia (21-22 September, 2014)



BOOK REVIEWS

René Alladaye 
The Darker Shades of Pale Fire: An Investigation into a Literary Mystery
(JUAN MARTINEZ) 

Dana Dragunoiu
Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Liberalism 
(ATSUSHI GOTO)
 
Yuri Leving, ed. 
Anatomy of a Short Story. Nabokov’s Puzzles, Codes, “Signs and Symbols” 
(MONICA MANOLESCU)

Kate Briggs and Lucrezia Russo, eds.
The Nabokov Paper
(SIMON ROWBERRY)