Vladimir Nabokov, A Bibliography of Criticism
by Dieter E. Zimmer
with additions by Jeff Edmunds

Barabtarlo, Gennady. "Scrambled Bacon." The Nabokovian, Spring 1990, 24, pp. 29- 32.

Begnal, Michael H. "Bend Sinister: Joyce, Shakespeare, Nabokov." Modern Language Studies (Ptsdam, NY), Fall 1985, 15:4, pp. 22-27.

Begnal, Michael H. "Adam Krug's Parrot," Zembla, 1997.

Bienstock, Beverly Gray: "Focus Pocus: Film Imagery in Bend Sinister". In: Nabokov's Fifth Arc (ed. J.E. Rivers / Charles Nicol). Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1982, pp. 125-138

Booker, M. Keith. Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. (Includes extended discussions of Invitation to a Beheading and Bend Sinister.)

Boyd, Brian. "Nabokov's Bend Sinister." Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review (Lexington, VA), Spring 1991, 41:1, pp. 12-28.

Burns, Dan E.: "Bend Sinister and "Tyrants Destroyed": Short Story into Novel". Modern Fiction Studies (Lafayette, IN), 25 (3), Autumn 1979, pp. 508-513

Feuer, Lois. "The Unnatural Mirror: Bend Sinister and Hamlet." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (Washington, DC), Fall 1988, 30:1, pp. 3- 12.

Foster, John Burt: "Bend Sinister". In: The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov (ed. Vladimir E. Alexandrov), New York: Garland, 1995, pp. 25-36

Fromberg Schaeffer, Susan: "Bend Sinister and the Novelist as Anthropomorphic Deity". Centennial Review (East Lansing, MI), 17 (2), Spring 1973, pp. 115-155

Gove, Antonina Filonov: "Multilingualism and Ranges of Tone in Nabokov's Bend Sinister". Slavic Review (New York), 32 (1), 19??, pp. 79-90

Grishakova, Marina. "On Some Allusions in V. Nabokov’s Works." The Nabokovian, 43, fall 1999, p. 18-29.

Grishakova, Marina. "O nekotoryh allusijah u V. Nabokova." In Kultura russkoi diaspory: Nabokov-100. Tallinn : TPÜ KIRJASTUS, 2000, p. 119-134.

Grishakova, Marina. "V. Nabokov’s Bend Sinister: a Social Message or an Experiment with Time?" Sign Systems Studies (Tartu, Tartu University Press), vol. 28, 2000 , p. 242-263.

Grossmith, Robert: "Shaking the Kaleidoscope: Physics and Metaphysics in Nabokov's Bend Sinister". Russian Literature TriQuarterly (Ann Arbor, MI), 24, 1991, pp. 151-162

Heller, Michel. "Khudozhnik v zone mraka: Bend Sinister Nabokova." Vladimir Nabokov et l'Émigration, ed. Nora Buhks (Paris: Institut d'études slaves, 1993), pp. 95- 106 (Cahiers de l'émigration russe, 2).

Hyman, Stanley Edgar: "The Handle: Invitation to a Beheading and Bend Sinister". TriQuarterly (Evanston, IL), 17, Winter 1970, pp. 60-71

Johnson, D. Barton. "The 'Yablochko' Chatushka in Bend Sinister." The Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter, Fall 1982, 9, pp. 40-42.

Johnson, D[onald] Barton: "'Don't Touch My Circles': The Two Worlds of Nabokov's Bend Sinister". Delta (Montpellier), 17, Octobre 1983, pp. 33-52

Larmour, David H. "Heraclitus, Parmenides and Pythagoras." The Nabokovian, Spring 1988, 20, pp. 18-19.

Larmour, David H.: "The Classical Allusions in Bend Sinister". Russian Literature TriQuarterly (Ann Arbor, MI), 24, 1991, pp. 163-172

Lee, L[awrence] L.: "Bend Sinister: Nabokov's Political Dream". Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature (Madison, WI), 8(2), 1967, pp. 193-203

Machu, Didier. "Bend Sinister de Vladimir Nabokov: 'A Pool's Two Circles'." In Rougé, Bertrand (ed.), Ellipses, blancs, silences (Pau: Université de Pau, 1992), pp. 137-142.

Patteson, Richard F.: "Nabokov's Bend Sinister: The Narrator as God". Studies in American Fiction (Boston, MA), 5, 1977, pp. 241-253

Raguet-Bouvart, Christine. "Pouvoir, tyrannie et création littéraire chez Valdimir Nabokov: L'Exemple de Bend Sinsiter." Alizés: Revue Angliciste de la Réunion (Saint-Denis, Ile de la Réunion), 1991-1992, 2-3, pp. 57-67.

Raguet-Bouvart, Christine. "Ember, Translator of Hamlet," Zembla, April 1998.

Roth-Souton, Danièle. "Productivité d'un titre double, figure d'une figure divisée." Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines (Paris), July 1988, 13:37, pp. 215-225.

Schuman, Samuel: "Something Rotten in the State: Hamlet and Bend Sinister". Russian Literature TriQuarterly (Ann Arbor, MI), 24, 1991, pp. 197-212

Seidel, Michael. "Nabokov on Joyce, Shakespeare, Telemachus, and Hamlet." James Joyce Quarterly (Tulsa, OK), Spring 1983, 20:3, pp. 358-359.

Sommers, Elena Rakhimova. "The 'Olgalized' Otherworld of Bend Sinister." Russian Studies in Literature: A Journal of Translations, Rochester, NY. 1999 Fall; 35(4): pp. 61-94.

Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth: "Nabokov, Wilson, and Hamlet in Bend Sinister". Nabokov Studies (Los Angeles), 1, 1994, pp. 179-194

Tammi, Pekka. "The True Batch Outboys the Riot." The Nabokovian, Spring 1990, 24, pp. 39-42.

Walker, David: "The Person from Porlock: Bend Sinister and the Problem of Art". In: Modern Critical Views (ed. Harold Bloom). New York: Chelsea House, 1987, pp. 259-282

Zimmer, Dieter E.: "Anmerkungen des Übersetzers". In: Vladimir Nabokov: Das Bastardzeichen. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1962, pp. 277-286. Revised and expanded: 1990, pp. 321-347