
Ada to Zembla
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction: The Conjuror & the Craftsman
- Exile: The Life of Vladimir Nabokov
- Part One: The Russian Novels
- 1. Mary: Purgatory & Paradise
- 2. King, Queen, Knave: Dogs, Dolls, Dachau
- 3. The Luzhin Defense: Fatal Patterns
- 4. The Eye: A Hell of Mirrors
- 5. Glory: Quixotic Voyages
- 6. Laughter in the Dark: Seeing Is Deceiving
- 7. Despair: Literature as Ecstasy
- 8. Invitation to a Beheading: Negating Negation
- 9. The Gift: Pushkin Avenue to Gogol Street
- 10. The Enchanter: Pregnant with Death
- Part Two: The English Novels
- 11. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight: Dead Men & Dead Ends
- 12. Bend Sinister: The Embassy of Silence
- 13. Lolita: Comedy, Catharsis & Cosmic Crime
- 14. Pnin: The Faculty of Pain
- 15. Pale Fire: The Poet & the King
- 16. Ada or Ardor: Letters from an Ambidextrous Universe
- 17. Transparent Things: Proofreading the Past
- 18. Look at the Harlequins! Invent Reality!
- 19. The Original of Laura: Smirk in Progress
- Beyond the Novels: Memoir, Stories & Other Works
- 20. Speak, Memory
- 21. Short Stories
- 22. Poems, Plays, Eugene Onegin
- 23. Letters, Chess, Lepidoptery
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
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