Nabokov at Cornell

[Dave Monroe]

Shapiro, Gavriel, ed.  Nabokov at Cornell.
   Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2003.

"Vladimir Nabokov taught at Cornell University from
1948 to 1959. It was at Cornell that Nabokov composed
Lolita and Pnin and conceived Pale Fire. During his
Cornell tenure Nabokov also continued his research on
lepidoptera, wrote the English and Russian versions of
his autobiography, Conclusive Evidence and Drugie
Berega, and prepared annotated translations of two
pinnacles of Russian literature: The Song of Igor's
Campaign and Eugene Onegin. While at Cornell Nabokov
also delivered his highly acclaimed lectures on
Russian and West European literature. 

"Nabokov at Cornell contains twenty-five chapters by
the leading experts on Nabokov. Their subjects range
widely from Nabokov's poetry to his prose, from his
original fiction to translation and literary
scholarship, from literature to visual art, and from
the humanities to natural science. The book concludes
with a reminiscence of the family's life in Ithaca by
Nabokov's son Dmitri."
   http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornellpress/cup3_catalog.taf?_function=detail&Title_ID=3647

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