Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: ´ ´ ´, pronounced ; 22 April 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems.. multilingual Russian novelist poet and short story writer
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. Go to Quote / Comment
Leonid Ivanovich Shigaev is dead.... The suspension dots, customary in Russian obituaries, must represent the footprints of words that have de... Go to Quote / Comment
My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. Go to Quote / Comment
We should always remember that the work of art is invariably the creation of a new world, so that the first thing we should do is to study tha... Go to Quote / Comment
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. Go to Quote / Comment