Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Nabokov and the real world
4. 1 Between Appreciation and Defense 1
5. 2 Not Reading the Papers 14
6. 3 Lolita Now 33
7. 4 Nabokov’s Game of Worlds 49
8. 5 Autobiography as Alchemy in Pale Fire 88
9. 6 Ada, or the Perils of Paradise 101
10. 7 Nabokov for Those Who Hate Him: The Curious Case of Pnin 124
11. 8 Invitation to a Beheading: Nabokov and the Art of Politics 144
12. 9 Nabokov and Memory 167
13. 10 Lectures on Literature 182
14. 11 Style in the Novel, Style in Nabokov, and the Question of Translation 200
15. Notes 223
16. Sources 227
17. Index 229