Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American novelist and lepidopterist, best known for *Lolita* (1955), his controversial novel about a man's obsession with a twelve-year-old girl.
Born in Russia, he wrote in Russian before switching to English, producing stylistically intricate prose celebrated for wordplay and unreliable narrators.
His other major works include *Pale Fire* and *Speak, Memory*.
Nabokov also pursued serious work in butterfly taxonomy.
Name suggesting youthful temptation
- AdaPentagon's procedural coding language
- proseUnversified language
- stylistHair or fashion expert
- wordplayVerbal wit techniques
metafiction · narrative · characterization · imagery · artistry · aesthete · innovation · genius
Name suggesting youthful temptation
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- bannedOfficially disallowed
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
- moralityRight and wrong principles
scandal · nymphet · transgression · misreading · criticism · reception · pedophilia · provocation
One knowing many languages
- RussianEastern Slavic language
- EnglishBritain's native tongue
- FrenchOf or from Paris's nation
- translationConverting between languages
literal · syntax · diction · trilingual · wordplay · puns · etymology · commentary
Fluttering insects or nervousness
- specimensRepresentative items for examination
- entomologyStudy of insects
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
chrysalis · larvae · caterpillars · pupa · metamorphosis · antennae · species · genus
One who left home
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
diaspora · statelessness · Berlin · Paris · America · Switzerland · Montreux · homeland
Lolita
Name suggesting youthful temptation
wordplay · metafiction · narrative · characterization · imagery · artistry · aesthete · innovation · genius · unreliable narrator
Lolita
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- censorshipOfficial content restriction
- bannedOfficially disallowed
- tabooCultural or social prohibition
morality · scandal · nymphet · transgression · misreading · criticism · reception · pedophilia · provocation · Paris
polyglot
One knowing many languages
translation · literal · syntax · diction · trilingual · wordplay · puns · etymology · commentary · annotated
butterflies
Fluttering insects or nervousness
- specimensRepresentative items for examination
- entomologyStudy of insects
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
morphology · chrysalis · larvae · caterpillars · pupa · metamorphosis · antennae · species · genus · collecting
émigré
One who left home
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
refugee · diaspora · statelessness · Berlin · Paris · America · Switzerland · Montreux · homeland · Russia
- 20th Century AuthorsErnest Hemingway, Hemingway, William Faulkner, Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Emigre IntellectualsThomas Mann, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht
- Provocative WritersCharles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, Marquis de Sade
- Russian Emigresemigres, defector, defectors, White Russians, political exiles
- Expatriate Literatureexpatriates, expatriate life, Lost Generation, Henry James, Ezra Pound
- Russian Emigre WritersAyn Rand
Vladimir NabokovErnest Hemingway
minimalism · minimalist · spare prose · Cormac McCarthy · Samuel Beckett
Vladimir NabokovErnest Hemingway
John Steinbeck · Sinclair Lewis · naturalism · social realism
Vladimir NabokovStephen King
Bestselling horror fiction writer
John Grisham · Danielle Steel · James Patterson · pulp fiction · genre fiction