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An Index to Strong Opinions
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Kafka, Franz, 55, 57, 62, 80, 85, 103, 124, 151-152, 172, 189 comparison of English and Russian, 35Laramie, 322, 328 larch labyrinth, 157 “large issues,” 182 Larin, Mrs., 234, 236 larkspurs, 124 Larry, 234 Lasky, Melvin S., 275 “Last Suicide, The,” 65 Latin, 332 Laughlin, 175 Laughter in the Dark, 6, 19, 82-83, 137, 162, 163, 287-288, 300, 305 “Laughter in the Dark: Dimesions of Parody,” 287Laurentomania, 78 Lausanne, 56, 110, 191, 203 Lavington, Miss, 202 Lawrence, D. H., 54, 102, 118, 139 Lazarus, 203 Le Million, 164 Le Monde, 108 Lead, South Dakota, 199 Leavis, 78 Ledig-Rowohlt, Heinrich Maria, 185 Lenin, 118, 178 Leningrad, 327 Leninism, 97, 207 Lenski, 235, 237-238, 260, 264 lepidoptera (see also butterflies, and individual species), 9, 10, 47, 78-79, 96, 110, 136, 187, 190, 198, 314-335 “Lepidoptera Papers,” 314ff. Lepidopterists’ News, The, 318, 321, 328 Lermontov, 63, 224n, 243, 244 Lerner, Alan Jay, 166 lessons English, 192Letters (of F. Lane), 73 Letters from Terra, 123 “Letters to Editors,” 209ff. Liberal Revolution of 1917, 206 Library, Yale University, 240 Librikov, Adam von, 196 Life, 46 Life International, 277 lily, 10-11 lime, 234 Limone Piemonte, 333 Linguistics, Scientific, 294 “L’invitation au voyage,” 123 Listener, The, 9, 82n, 115, 141, 246 “Lit., Dirty,” 128 literary criticism, 66 literary evening in Paris, 86 literature and lepidoptera, 136Literature 311-312 (see also Cornell University), 62, 76-77, 128-129, 270 Literaturnaya Gazeta, 295 little girls, 184 “little lesson in prosody,” 144 Littré, 308 Liverpool, 136 Livorno, 136 Lloyd, Harold, 163, 165n Lolita, 83, 93, 94, 123, 174, 306 pronunciation of, 25, 138Lolita, 3, 6, 22-23, 28, 49, 52, 53, 54-55, 66, 71, 73, 74, 77, 81, 89, 92, 93, 94, 105-106, 107, 114, 132-133, 138, 159, 166, 175n, 198, 211, 216, 268-279, 285, 288, 300, 304-307 genesis of, 15“Lolita and Mr. Girodias,” 268-279 “Lolita and Related Memories,” 294 “Lolita, Nabokov and I,” 268 Lomonosov, 300 London, 56, 82, 110, 127, 135, 138, 162, 171, 214, 288, 335 London Times, 212, 335, (Sunday) 214 Lone King, 91 Long, John, publisher, 89n Longs Peak, 316, 323, 325 Lorca, 54 Los Angeles, 105 Los Angeles Times, 245 “Lost in the Funhouse,” 313 Lost World, The, 104 Louis XVI, 59 Louvre, 169 Lowell, Robert, 151, 243, 281-283 Lower, 285 Lubin, Peter, 291 Ludwig, Jack, 299 Lugano, 6 luggage, 203-204 “Luna Moth,” 329 lunch with Robbe-Grillet, 173-174 Luzhin, 163, 165n Lyceum, 74 Lyon, Sue, 21, 217 Lyons, Leonard, 8 Lyudmilla, 235 Macdowell, Gerty, 76 MacNamara, Mr. Desmond, 216 Madame Bocary, 77, 103, 294 Mademoiselle, 171n Madonna and Child, 169 Maeterlink, 155, 172 Magarshack, Mr., 215 magic, 11, 153 Mailer, Norman, 126, 286 Maine, 40 Malevich, 170 “man in the brown mackintosh,” 55 Mandelshtam, Osip, 58, 97, 280-283 Mann, Thomas, 54, 57, 83, 85, 113, 204 Mann’s White, 60 Mansfield Park, 157, 294 Marat, 31 Marcel, Gabriel, 86 Margot, 83, 162, 288 Mariette, 24, 83 Marx Brothers, 163, 164, 165n Marx, Karl, 18, 40, 156, 288 Mary, Mashenka, 82, 154n, 159, 161, 179-180, 188, 253n, 296 Masterpieces of European Fiction (see Literature 311-312) Matisse, 167 Maugham, Somerset, 109, 118, 147 Maupassant, 147 Maxwell, Bill, 99 mayfly, 169 McCarthy, Mary, 99, 171 McCoo, 166 McGraw-Hill, 124, 154n, 159, 166, 253n Meadow Brown, 60 Medicine Bow National Forest, 322, 324, 327 mediocre writers, 57 Mediterranean islands, 199 “Médoc,” 86 Medved’, 291 Melville, 61, 64, 83 Memorial Hall, 103, 132 memory, 12, 13, 78, 141, 155 Nabokov’s 139-140Mérimée, 262 Mesures, 172 Metamorphosis, La métamorphose, 55, 57, 90, 103, 151 metaphors, 142 Milan, 49, 126, 169 “Miller,” 329 Miller’s Thumb, 133 Million, Le, 164 Milnykov, Prof. P. N., 188, 215 mirror, 20 Mirrors, Hall of, 161 Mirski, 244 misprints, 182 mnemosyne, 78 Moby Dick, 304 modern books N dislikes, 116 “modern world,” 110 Modigliani, 175n Modzalevski, 245 molasses candy, 27 Molloy, 172 Molly, 72, 103 Monarch, 330 monarchists, 214 money for writing, 144 monism, 124 Monter, Barbara Heldt, 288-289 Montreux, xiii, 20, 46, 55, 56, 58, 62, 93, 108, 120, 125, 131, 141, 162, 178, 181, 185, 190, 197, 198, 240, 298 Montreux Palace Hotel (see hotels) moon landing, 149-150, 217 Moran, 332, 325 Morini, Simona, 197 Moscow, 234, 255, 308 Moscow-Peterburg Express, 90, 157 Mossman, James, 141 motels, 198 moth, 60 moths and butterflies, 143, 306 mother, N’s, 188, 202 motocycles, 150 Mount Tabor, 285 Mountain Fritillary, 333 Mozart and Salieri, 99 Mrozovski, Peter, 102-103 Mt. Jungfrau, 262 Muchnic, Prof., 243, 244 Murnau, F. W., 163 muse, 310 Museum, British, 331 Museum of Comparative Zooology, Harvard, 132, 190, 198, 314, 315, 318, 323, 326 Museum of Natural History, New York City, 198 museums, travel to, 169 music, 167 N’s lack of ear for, 35myopia, 168 mystery stories, 43, 129, 174 N, Price, 234 Nabok, 119 “N. and Chekhov,” 314 “N. in the Thirties,” 290 Nabokov, Dmitri (1827-1904), 188 Nabokov, Dmitri, 17, 35, 49, 88, 109, 126, 192 Nabokov, Helen (N’s mother), 188, 202 Nabokov, Véra (Slonim), 3, 17, 38, 49, 77n, 105, 109, 125, 127-128, 146, 179, 190, 191, 198, 277, 316, 325 Nabokov, V. D. (N’s father), 46, 104, 127, 150, 171, 187, 202, 214, 219, 271, 288, 293 Nabokov, Vladimir age and health, 177Nabokov’s Congeries, 267n Nabokov’s Deceptive World, 304-307 Nabokov’s Pug, 187 Nabokov’s River, 187 Nancy, Princess, 234, 239 Naples, 169 Napoleon, 239 Napoleonic wars, 236 Naprapathy, 30 narrator of Transparent Things, 195 Natasha, 202 nature, magic and deception in, 153 Nausea, La Nausée (see also Sartre), 228-229 Nazis, 214 “Nearctic Lycaeides,” 319 “Nearctic Members of the Genus Lycaeides,” 187 Nearctic region, 327 Nebraska, 328 nécessaire de voyage, 204 Neotropical Plebejinae, 320 Nesle, rue de, 268 Neugeboren, Jay, 301-302 Neva, 92 Nevski Avenue, 201 New Bon Ton Magazine, The, 30 “New Desk for Nabokov’s Knaves, A,” 296 New Directions, 228, 230, 292 New England, 12, 51, 254 New Guinea, 40 “New Hairwave School,” 113 New Haven, Connecticut, 240, 318 New Mexico, 270 “New Refutation of Time, A,” 289-290 New Republic, The, 99, 245 New Statesman, The, 215-216, 249 New World, 327 New York, 7, 18, 28, 33, 51, 55, 56, 82, 89n, 91, 93, 107, 111, 153, 154n, 191, 194, 197, 198, 199, 204, 205, 218n, 228, 231n, 244, 247n, 253n, 255n, 267n, 275, 276, 291, 298, 315 New York Review, The, 266, 307n New York Times, The, 131, 171, 177, 217 New York Times Book Review, The 108, 181, 218-219, 230, 240n, 243, 245, 247, 250, 272, 283n, 330 New Yorker, The, 6, 84, 99, 159-160 New Zealand, 216 Newman, Charles, 284, 300 newspapers, 150 Newton, Connecticut, 110 Nice, 29, 55, 212 Nicolaus, 188 Night at the Opera, A, 163, 165n nightmares, 29 Nighttown, 72 Nikolavna, Pelageya, 234 Nobel Prize, 206 Noel, Lucie Leon (see also Leon), 292 Nogell’s Hairstreak, 331 Nord-Express, 202 Norfolk Swallowtail, 332 Normandy, 229 North America, 330 Northern Russia, 46, 91-92, 170, 182 Northern Wall Brown, 334 Northgate, Colorado, 322, 323 Northwestern University, 284 Northwestern University Press, 303n “Nose, The,” 84 Notes and Queries, 31 “Notes on the Translation of Invitation to a Beheading,” 295 Nouveau Larousse Universel, 175n Nouvelle revue française, La, 86, 151, 172, 173 Nova Zembla, 187 Novel, A Forum on Fiction, 159 novel and film, 164-165 novels (not N’s), 43-44, 57, 151 the French New Novel, 173, 174novels, political, 3 Novyy Journal, 91, 245 “N’s Blue,” 315n “N’s Russified Lewis Carroll,” 286 Nymphalis, 326 nymphet(s), 21, 24, 53, 79, 81, 93, 133, 138, 216, 245 nympholepsy, 81 NYU Press, 304n Oakes, Philip, 135 obituary, 134 Objets, 175n Observer, The, 246 October Revolution, 160 Ode to Memory, 257 Odoevski, 65 Odoevtsev, Irina, 39 “Odyssey of a Translator,” 293 OED, 258 Oeil-de-Dieu, 175n Oettingen, Wilhelm Count, 188 Ogallala, Nebraska, 328 Ohio, 33 Old Man and the Sea, The, 42, 80 Old Masters, 168 Old World, 327 Oldsmobile, 198 Olesha, 87 Olga, 235, 257, 264 Olympia Press, 99, 268 Olympia Reader, The, 268 “On a Book Entitled Lolita,” 23 “On Adaptation,” 280 “On Hodasevich,” 223-227 “On Some Inaccuracies in Klots’ Field Guide,” 319-321 “On the Coarctation of the Jugular Foramen in the Insane,” 187 On Time and Its Texture, 185-186 Onegin (see Eugene Onegin) “Only talent interests me ...,” 33 opera of Bend Sinister, 162optics, 79 Orczy, Emmuska, 43 Oregon, 199 Orinoco, 295 Orkneys, 31 Osip, 202 Osten-Sacken, Eleonor von der, 188 Otchayanie (see also Despair), 82, 89n Otsebyatina, 238 Ours, L’, 291 Ozhegov, 308
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