Nabokov
Nabokov refers to Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977), Russian-American novelist known for intricate prose style and controversial masterpiece *Lolita*.
The name has become shorthand for literary virtuosity, elaborate wordplay, and morally complex narratives: very Nabokov, Nabokovian prose.
He was also a serious lepidopterist, lending the name associations with butterfly collecting.
Name suggesting youthful temptation
- AdaPentagon's procedural coding language
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- proseUnversified language
- wordplayVerbal wit techniques
synesthesia · metafiction · unreliable narrator · stylist · artistry · craftsmanship · multilingual · parody
One who left home
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- BerlinGermany's largest city
- ParisFrance's chief city
- AmericaWestern superpower nation
trilingual · nostalgia · statelessness · Cornell · Montreux · Switzerland · Cambridge · Wellesley
Fluttering insects or nervousness
- specimensRepresentative items for examination
- collectingGathering items over time
- netsMesh devices for catching
- pinsPointed sewing fasteners
blues · taxonomy · fieldwork · mimicry · wing patterns · alpine meadows · scientific illustration · amateur naturalist
Russian Baltic port city
- aristocraticOf hereditary nobility
- gentryHighborn but not noble
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- governessPrivate household teacher
Lolita
Name suggesting youthful temptation
wordplay · synesthesia · metafiction · unreliable narrator · stylist · artistry · craftsmanship · multilingual · parody · allusion
émigré
One who left home
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- BerlinGermany's largest city
- ParisFrance's chief city
America · trilingual · nostalgia · statelessness · Cornell · Montreux · Switzerland · Cambridge · Wellesley · aristocracy
butterflies
Fluttering insects or nervousness
- specimensRepresentative items for examination
- collectingGathering items over time
- netsMesh devices for catching
pins · blues · taxonomy · fieldwork · mimicry · wing patterns · alpine meadows · scientific illustration · amateur naturalist · Rocky Mountains
St Petersburg
Russian Baltic port city
- aristocraticOf hereditary nobility
- gentryHighborn but not noble
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
governess · tutors · dachas · prerevolutionary · silver age
- Russian WritersPushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov
- Russian Translationtranslated works, translators, Russian classics, Anna Karenina, War and Peace
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
- NovelistsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen
- Classic AuthorsShakespeare, Dante, Homer, Chaucer, Milton
NabokovHemingway
Cormac McCarthy · Samuel Beckett · Albert Camus · Joan Didion · George Orwell
NabokovWilliam Faulkner
Toni Morrison · Mark Twain · Zora Neale Hurston · Flannery O'Connor · Thomas Hardy
NabokovTolstoy
Dostoevsky · Harriet Beecher Stowe · Upton Sinclair · moralist · George Eliot