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From Russia with Love (and Squalor): The Master of Nabokovian Mimesis
From Russia with Love (and Squalor): The Master of Nabokovian Mimesis
By Misha Grunbaum
October 16, 2012
When I was a senior in college, I took a class on Nabokov. We went from his early short stories to the sublime Pale Fire (“And then the gradual and dual blue / As night unites the viewer and the view”), and our professor told us about meeting Nabokov’s wife in Europe. Read More
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