VN's

Perhaps his finest illustration of this is captured in Pale Fire, his stunning metafictional novel, which is both a poem (by VN's character, mild-mannered poet John Shade) and a much-longer critical commentary (by VN's character, the potentially deranged Charles Kinbote).

Tamsin Smith: Nabokov's Other Gift Tamsin Smith 2011

Perhaps his finest illustration of this is captured in Pale Fire, his stunning metafictional novel, which is both a poem (by VN's character, mild-mannered poet John Shade) and a much-longer critical commentary (by VN's character, the potentially deranged Charles Kinbote).

Tamsin Smith: Nabokov's Other Gift Tamsin Smith 2011

I also give VN's response, or correction, to Wilson.

And quiet flow the links 2010

I'd never heard VN's actual far from James Mason-like *voice* before!

MONDAY VIDEO ACTION TEV 2008

Compare him to Joseph K a relative cut-out who is easily irritated and you begin to appreciate VN's ability to breathe life into characters.

Some Notes on Invitation to a Beheading 2006

* The Ithaca Times has a too lengthy look at Nabokov's Ithaca years that relates what happens to you if you're the professor who has taken over VN's former quarters.

The Elegant Variation: TEV 2005

Compare DB's writing to VN's--Nabokov was nobody's outsider!

IN WHICH HEROES STUMBLE TEV 2005

Thomas Pynchon his student, btw, caught VN's attention with Dewey Gland, Benny Profane and Mafia Winsome, just from "V".

Dooku 2005

* The Ithaca Times has a too lengthy look at Nabokov's Ithaca years that relates what happens to you if you're the professor who has taken over VN's former quarters.

OBITER DICTA TEV 2005

The report next points out that, as far the Paris peace negotiations are concerned, the PRG 's seven-point proposal and the Democratic Republic of VN's

Bulletin No. 50146 1972