After a pretty compelling reading of Pnin (1957), I hit the streets and tried to gather some information about the author. Nabokov writes passionately about classics such as Anna Karenina in Pnin. But on the other side when it comes to literary scholars in the novel he often takes a sardonic tone. Let’s see what other scholars wrote about him. The titles evoke appraisal but I’m also looking for critical remarks about the politics of his writing. I’ll take a note for the initial books I encountered on web here.
- Księżopolska, I. & Wiśniewski, M. (2019), Vladimir Nabokov and the Fictions of Memory, Fundacja Augusta hr. Cieszkowskiego.
- Rakhimova-Sommers, E. (2017), Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads, Lexington Books.
- White, D. (2017), Nabokov and his Books: Between Late Modernism and the Literary Marketplace (Oxford English Monographs), OUP Oxford.
- Barabtarlo, G. & Nabokov, V. (2017), Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time, Princeton University Press.
- Toker, L. (2016), Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures, Cornell University Press.
- Blackwell, S. H. & Johnson, K. (2016), Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art, Yale University Press.
- Bozovic, M. (2016), Nabokov’s Canon: From “Onegin” to “Ada”, Northwestern University Press.
- Roper, R. (2015), Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita, Bloomsbury.
- Pifer, E. (2014), Nabokov and the Novel, Harvard University Press.
- Couturier, M. (2014), Nabokov’s Eros and the Poetics of Desire, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Pitzer, A. (2013), The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov, Pegasus Books.
- Zunshine, L. (2013), Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries, Routledge.
- Rampton, D. (2012), Vladimir Nabokov: A Literary Life, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Boyd, B. (2011), Stalking Nabokov, Columbia University Press.
- Leving, Y. (2011), Keys to The Gift: A Guide to Vladimir Nabokov’s Novel, Academic Studies Press.
- Dragunoiu, D. (2011), Vladimir Nabokov and the Poetics of Liberalism, Northwestern University Press.
- Wyllie, B. (2010), Vladimir Nabokov (Critical Lives), Reaktion Books.
- Khrushcheva, N. L. (2008), Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, Yale University Press.
- Glynn, M. (2007), Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Connolly, J. W. (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov, Cambridge University Press.
- Shrayer, M. (2001), The World of Nabokov’s Stories, University of Texas Press.
- Johnson, K. (1999), Nabokov’s Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius, Zoland Books.
- Page, N. (1997), Vladimir Nabokov, Routledge.
- Wood, M. (1997), The Magician’s Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction, Princeton University Press.
- Alexandrov, V. E. (1995), The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov, Taylor & Francis Inc.
- Foster, J. B. (1993), Nabokov’s Art of Memory and European Modernism, Princeton University Press.
- Alexandrov, V. E. (1991), Nabokov’s Otherworld, Princeton University Press.
- Parker, S. J. (1987), Understanding Vladimir Nabokov, University of South Carolina Press.