*The Eye. 1930. (New York, 1965). A short novel.

*Glory. 1931. Paris, 1932 (New York, 1971). A novel.

*Camera Obscura. Paris and Berlin, 1932 (London, 1936; rev., New York, 1938, as Laughter in the Dark). A novel.

*Despair. 1934. Berlin, 1936 (London, 1937; rev., New York, 1966). A novel.

*Invitation to a Beheading. 19351936. Berlin and Paris, 1938 (New York, 1959). A novel.

*The Gift. 19371938. New York, 1952, in Russian (New York, 1963). A novel.

*The Waltz Invention. 1938 (New York, 1966). Drama in 3 acts.

**The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. Norfolk, Conn., 1941. A novel.

**Three Russian Poets: Translations of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tiutchev. Norfolk, Conn., 1944.

**Nikolai Gogol. Norfolk, Conn., 1944. A critical study.

**Bend Sinister. New York, 1947. A novel.

**Conclusive Evidence. New York, 1951. A memoir.

Other Shores. New York, 1954. A Russian version of Conclusive Evidence, rewritten and expanded rather than translated.

**Lolita. Paris, 1955 (New York, 1958). A novel.

**Pnin. New York, 1957. A novel.

** Lermontov. A Hero of Our Time. New York, 1958. A translation.

**Nabokov's Dozen. New York, 1958. 13 stories, 3 translated from Russian, 1 from French.

**The Song of Igor's Campaign. New York, 1960. A translation of the twelfth-century epic.

**Pale Fire. New York, 1962. A novel.

** Pushkin, Eugene Onegin. New York, 1964. Translation and Commentary in 4 volumes.

**Speak, Memory. New York, 1966. Definitive version of memoir originally published as Conclusive Evidence, including Other Shores and new material.

**Ada. New York, 1969. A novel.

*Poems and Problems. New York, 1971. 53 poems, 39 in both Russian and English, 18 chess problems.

**Transparent Things. New York, 1972. A novel.

*A Russian Beauty and Other Stories. 19241940. New York, 1973. 13 stories.

**Strong Opinions. New York, 1973. 22 interviews, 11 letters, 9 articles, and 5 lepidoptera papers.

**Lolita: A Screenplay. New York, 1974.

**Look at the Harlequins! New York, 1974. A novel.

*Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories. New York, 1975. 13 stories, 12 translated from the Russian.

*Details of a Sunset and Other Stories. New York, 1976. 13 stories.

** Karlinsky, Simon, ed. The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence Between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, 19401971. New York, 1979.

Bowers, Fredson, ed. Lectures on Literature. New York, 1980.

--. Lectures on Russian Literature. New York, 1981.

--. Lectures on Don Quixote. New York, 1983.

*The Man from the USSR and Other Plays. New York, 1984. 4 plays.

*The Enchanter. New York, 1986. A novella.

Bruccoli, Matthew, and Dmitri Nabokov, eds. Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 19401977. New York, 1989.

2. CRITICISM OF LOLITA.

Included below are most of the studies of Lolita published during Nabokov's lifetime.

Aldridge, A. Owen, "Lolita and Les Liaisons Dangereuses," Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, II (Fall 1961), 2026.

Amis, Kingsley, "She Was a Child and I Was a Child," The Spectator, No. 6854 (November 6, 1959), 635636.

Appel, Alfred, Jr., "The Art of Nabokov's Artifice," Denver Quarterly, III (Summer 1968), 2537.

-, "An Interview with Vladimir Nabokov," in the Special all-Nabokov number, Wisconsin Studies, VIII (Spring 1967), 127152. Reprinted in L. S. Dembo, ed., Nabokov: The Man and His Work. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. Pp. 1944. Reprinted in Nabokov, Strong Opinions. New York: Vintage International, 1989, pp. 6292.

-, "Lolita: The Springboard of Parody," Wisconsin Studies, op. cit., 204241. Reprinted in Dembo, op. cit. Pp. 106143.

-, Nabokov's Dark Cinema. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. 61151.

Brenner, Conrad, "Nabokov: The Art of the Perverse," New Republic, CXXXVIII (June 23, 1958), 1821.

Bryer, Jackson R, and Thomas J. Bergin, Jr., "Vladimir Nabokov's Critical Reputation in English: A Note and a Checklist," Wisconsin Studies, op. cit., 312364. Reprinted in Dembo, op. cit. Pp. 225274.

Butler, Diana, "Lolita Lepidoptera," New World Writing, No. 16 (1960), 5884.

Dupee, F. W., "Lolita in America," Encounter, XII (February 1959), 3035.

Reprinted in Columbia University Forum, II (Winter 1959), 3539.

-, "A Preface to Lolita," Anchor Review, No. 2 (1957), 113. Reprinted in his "The King of the Cats" and Other Remarks on Writers and Writing. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. Pp. 117141. Includes review of The Gift.

Fiedler, Leslie A., "The Profanation of the Child," New Leader, XLI (June 23, 1958), 2629.

Field, Andrew, Nabokov: His Life in Art. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967. Pp. 323351.

Girodias, Maurice, "Lolita, Nabokov, and I," Evergreen Review, IX (September 1965), 4447, 8991. Account of first publication of Lolita; for Nabokov's rejoinder, see "Lolita and Mr. Girodias," Evergreen Review, XI (February 1967), 3741.

Gold, Herbert, "The Art of Fiction XL: Vladimir Nabokov, An Interview," Paris Review, No. 41 (Summer-Fall 1967), 92111.

Green, Martin, "The Morality of Lolita," Kenyon Review, XXVIII (June 1966), 352377.

Hicks, Granville, " 'Lolita' and Her Problems," Saturday Review, XLI (August 16, 1958), 12, 38.

Hollander, John, "The Perilous Magic of Nymphets," Partisan Review, XXIII (Fall 1956), 557560. Reprinted in Richard Kostelanetz, ed., On Contemporary Literature. New York: Avon Books, 1964. Pp. 477480.

Josipovici, G. D., "Lolita: Parody and the Pursuit of Beauty," Critical Quarterly, VI (Spring 1964), 3548.

Kael, Pauline, "Lolita," in I Lost It at the Movies. New York: Bantam Books, 1966. Pp. 183188. Reprinted in Andrew Sarris, ed., The Film. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968. Pp. 1114. The most interesting review of the film version of Lolita.

Meyer, Frank S., "The Strange Fate of 'Lolita'-A Lance into Cotton Wool," National Review, VI (November 22, 1958), 340341.

Mitchell, Charles, "Mythic Seriousness in Lolita," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, V (Autumn 1963), 329343.

Nemerov, Howard, "The Morality of Art," Kenyon Review, XIX (Spring 1957), 313314, 316321. Reprinted in his Poetry and Fiction: Essays. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1963. Pp. 260269.

Phillips, Elizabeth, "The Hocus-Pocus of Lolita," Literature and Psychology, X (Summer 1960), 97101.

"Playboy Interview: Vladimir Nabokov," Playboy, XI (January 1964), 3541, 4445. Reprinted in The Twelfth Anniversary Playboy Reader. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1965.

Prescott, Orville, "Books of The Times," New York Times, August 18, 1958, p. 17.

Proffer, Carl R., Keys to Lolita. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.

Rougemont, Denis de, "Lolita, or Scandal." In Love Declared-Essays on the Myths of Love, tr. Richard Howard. New York: Pantheon Books, 1963. Pp. 4854.

Schickel, Richard, "Nabokov's Artistry," The Progressive, XXII (November 1958), 46, 4849.

-, "A Review of a Novel You Can't Buy," The Reporter, XVII (November 28, 1957), 4547.

Smith, Peter Duval, "Vladimir Nabokov on His Life and Work," The Listener, LXVIII (November 22, 1962), 856858. Text of BBC television interview. Reprinted in Vogue, CXLI (March 1, 1963), 152155.

Stegner, Page, Escape into Aesthetics: The Art of Vladimir Nabokov. New York: Dial Press, 1966. Pp. 102115.

Trilling, Lionel, "The Last Lover-Vladimir Nabokov's 'Lolita,' " Griffin, VII (August 1958), 421. Reprinted in Encounter, XI (October 1958), 919.

West, Rebecca, " 'Lolita': A Tragic Book with a Sly Grimace," London Sunday Times, November 8, 1959, p. 16.

3. NABOKOV STUDIES.

While studies of all aspects of Nabokov mount up by the year, the following are, or promise to be, indispensable.

Boyd, Brian. Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Volume I of an anticipated two-volume biography.

See also Parker, Stephen Jan, ed. The Nabokovian. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1984. Earlier titled The Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter, 19781984. A semi-annual journal devoted to Nabokov studies, including bibliographies of critical studies.

Juliar, Michael. Vladimir Nabokov: A Descriptive Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986.

In Place of a

Note on the Text

Shade's poem is, indeed, that sudden flourish of magic: my gray-haired friend, my beloved old conjurer, put a pack of index cards into his hat-and shook out a poem.

To this poem we now must turn. My Foreword has been, I trust, not too skimpy. Other notes, arranged in a running commentary, will certainly satisfy the most voracious reader. Although those notes, in conformity with custom, come after the poem, the reader is advised to consult them first and then study the poem with their help, rereading them of course as he goes through its text, and perhaps, after having done with the poem, consulting them a third time so as to complete the picture. I find it wise in such cases as this to eliminate the bother of back-and-forth leafings by either cutting out and clipping together the pages with the text of the thing, or, even more simply, purchasing two copies of the same work which can then be placed in adjacent positions on a comfortable table-not like the shaky little affair on which my typewriter is precariously enthroned now, in this wretched motor lodge, with that carousel inside and outside my head, miles away from New Wye. Let me state that without my notes Shade's text simply has no human reality at all since the human reality of such a poem as his (being too skittish and reticent for an autobiographical work), with the omission of many pithy lines carelessly rejected by him, has to depend entirely on the reality of its author and his surroundings, attachments and so forth, a reality that only my notes can provide. To this statement my dear poet would probably not have subscribed, but, for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.

-CHARLES KINBOTE, Pale Fire THE ANNOTATED.