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An Index to Strong Opinions
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P.S. to Miss Howard, 50 landscape, 166Palace Hotel, Montreux (see hotels) Pale Fire, 6, 10, 18, 30, 49, 52, 55, 59, 63, 64, 66, 69-71, 73-75, 77, 79, 81, 83, 91, 92n, 119, 122, 165n, 167, 171, 179, 290, 291, 300 palindromes, 292-293, 293n Panama baskets, 313 Papilio, 31 Paris, 5, 6, 8, 15, 36, 39, 53, 55, 56, 85-86, 89, 103, 109, 127, 162, 169, 172, 175, 192, 202, 204, 214, 223, 225, 227, 228, 236, 268, 270, 276, 277, 278, 289, 290, 292 Paris Opera House, 170 Paris Review, The, 93, 108 “Paris school” of émigré poetry, 160 Paris Soir, 15 Paris Zoo, 16 Parisian prostitute, 298 parliamnt, first Russian, 187 Parnassius mnemosyne, 90 parody, 75-76 Passionate Friends, The, 103 Pasternak, 57, 205-207 Paulhan, Jean (“Pauhan”), 172 Pavlenkov, 224n Pavlova, 171 Peacock Lake, 323 pederasty, 81 Pegasus, 178 Pelageya Nikolavna (“Pelya”), 234 Penguin (publisher), 254 perception, 11 “Perfect Day for a Bananafish, A,” 313 Perkins, Agnes, 292 persecution (see Soviet Russia) Persia, 48 Person, Hugh, 194-196 Personal Past, 186 Pertzov, Peter, 289 Peru, 100 Peter the Great, 301 Petersburg (see St. Petersburg) Petersburg, 57, 85-86, 243 Peyre, Prof., 240 Phaedra (publisher), 97, 111 philistines, 50, 78, 97, 112, 114, 116, 139, 167, 213, 219, 243, 274 philistinism, 23, 40, 101 Phoenix Bookshop, 134 photography, 166 Picasso, 167 Pichot, 165 Piedmont, 203 Pierids, 328 pigeonholes, pigeonholing (see also labelling), 170, 173 pigeons, 197 Pimpernel, Scarlet, 43 pine, 234 Piotovski, Vladimir, 293 Pirandello, 74 Placerville, 316 Planck, Max, 299 “Playback,” 292 Plato, 69-70, 78 Playboy, 20, 108, 211, 278, 279 plays, N’s, 89-90 Plebejus, 320, 333 Plimpton, George A., 93 Plurabelle, Anna Livia, 74 Plymouth, 198 Pnin, 6, 52, 71, 84, 167, 290, 294 Pnin, Timofey, 296 Poe, 42-43, 61, 64, 83 poem on ginkgo, 58-59 Poems and Problems, 159-160, 176 Poésie Complète (Hellens’), 175n Poets on Street Corners, 280 poetry (see also Nabokov, Vladimir) appreciation of, 150-151Polar Fritillary, 334 Polenzes, 188 police states (see also Soviet Russia), 50, 58, 193, 215 Polidori, 262 political convention, 126 “political novels,” 3 politics and literature, 112-113 “Art of Politics in Invitation to a Beheading,” 287Pompeii, 169 Ponizovski, Alex, 292 Pontius, 285 pools (see swimming pools) Pope, Alexander, 213 Popkin, Mr., 272 Poplar Admirable, 334 Popular Library, 75 Pornologist in Olympus, 211, 278 Porpora, Paolo, 168 Portal, 199 Portrait d’un inconnu, 173 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A, 71 Portugal, 178 poshlust, poshlost, 100-101, 105 Pound, Ezra, 43, 102, 136 “Pounding the Clavichord,” 231-240 power, 182 Prague, 127, 204 predecessor of Humbert Humbert, 16 predecessor of Lolita, 16 “Prelude, The,” by Rachmaninov, 290 Priglashenie na kazn’, 92 Prince Andrey, 148 Prince M, 234 Prince N, 234 Prince Zemski, 122 Princess Aline, 234 Princess Nancy, 234, 239 Princeton, 95 Princeton Press, 124 Pritchett, Mr., 215 problems, chess, 160 “professor, full,” 27, 132 “Professor Apple,” 296 Proffer, Carl R., 192, 296 Proffer, Ellenda, 295 “Profit wthout Honor,” 217 Prokofiev, 98 Prolasov, 239 Promenade, The, 170 Promenade des Anglais, 55 pronunciation of “Lolita,” 25, 138prose and poetry, 64 prosody, 144, 213 Proust, 43, 57, 62, 85, 197, 289 Providence, Rhode Island, 159 Pskov, 236 Psyche, 168 Psyche, 320, 327 psychoanalysis, 23, 47 psychology in fiction, 174 puns, 129 purpose and message, 115 Pushkin (see also Eugene Onegin), 7, 13, 38, 43, 52, 74-75, 76, 86, 99, 103, 127, 144, 146, 151, 215-216, 223, 231n, (his father) 165, 294, 301 “Pushkin and Byron,” 215-216 Putnam, G. P.’s Sons, 197, 255n puzzles, 20, 184 Pynchon, Thomas, 76-77. 77n Quassi, Quassia, 178 Queen Elizabeth, 3 Queneau, Raymond, 173-175, 173n Quilty, 21, 72, 73n, 83 R., Mr., 195-196 racemosa, 179 racemosa bird cherry, 234 Rachmaninov, 290-291 Raevski, 265 “Rain Has Flown, The,” 159 rainbow, 315 “Raisins of fact in the cake of fiction ...,” 155 Ramsdale, 166 Random House, 280 Ransom, J. C., 287 “reader, the general,” 148 “readers, Philistine,” 274 readers, Soviet, 295 reading one’s “rivals,” 32 reading with the spine, 41 Real Life of Sebastian Knight, The, 6, 21, 54, 73, 76, 88, 230, 292 “realists,” 170 “reality,” 10, 79, 94, 118 and imagination, 154Rebel’s Blue, 332 Red Admirable, 169, 285 Red Army, 223 “Red Letter Forgers, The,” 214 “Reds and Russells,” 98 Reid, Mr. Homer, 316 Release, 115 religion, 160 Remembrance of Things Past (see In Search of Lost Time) Renaissance, 168 “Reply to My Critics,” 241-267 Reporter, The, 205 Republic of the Southern Cross, The, 65 Republican, 126 Research Fellow in Entomology, 190 Resurrection, 147 Review, 141 revolution (see also Russian revolution), 132 Liberal -- of 1917, 206Rex, Axel, 288 Rhodes, Colossus of, 78 rhythm, 121 Richardson, Tony, 137, 162 Riley, North Dakota, 331-335 Rim, The, 322, 325 Rimbaud, 43 Ringlets, 200, 331, 334 Riviera, 24, 82, 202 roach, 156, 234 Robbe-Grillet, 4, 44, 80, 139, 173-174 Rocky Mountains, 190, 316 Rolls-Royce, 106 Romania, 331 Rome, 29, 169, 203 Roquentin, 229 Rorschach, 101 Rosen, Mr., 243 Rosset, Barney, 268 Rousseau, 257 Route 85, 199 Rowe, W. W., 304-307 “Rowe’s Symbols,” 304-307 Roy, Winifred, 82 rue de Nesle, 268 Rue du Chat qui Pêche, La, 86 rue Saïgon, 89 Rukavishnikov, Ivan, 188 Rul, 214 Russell, Bertrand, 98, 212 Russia (see also Soviet Russia), 9-10, 12-13, 26, 27, 28, 34, 37, 49, 52, 53, 58, 91, 96, 98, 100, 101, 113, 118, 125, 131, 133, 148, 149, 178, 192, 196, 219, 224, 294, 295, 299, 312, 331 Russian compared to English, 35 Russian émigré critics of N., 39 Russian émigrés, 5, 117-118, 214 in Paris, xii, 36, 160Russian Imperial Academy of Medicine, 187 Russians leaving Alaska, 61 Russian letters, modern, 50, 58 Russian Literature (see also individual writers and works), 189, 225, 270 Russian Nights, 65 Russian painting, 170-171 Russian poetry, 223 Russian prosody, 144 Russian Review, The, 246 Russian revolution, 28, 58, 87, 128, 148, 149, 160, 200, 214 Russian to English, N’s switch, 15 Russian translations, N’s, 38, 47, 52-53, 97, 110 Russian-English dictionaries, 234 Rustler Park, 199 Ryleev, 127 Saburov, Andrey, 240 “Sad, Ungraceful History of Lolita, A,” 268 Safety Last, 165n Saïgon, rue, 89 St. Mark’s, 84 St. Nazaire, 204 St. Petersburg, 42, 104, 110, 114, 128, 171, (government of) 188, 200, 202, 214, 223, 224n, 291, 308 St. Petersburg (see Petersburg) St. Preux, 236 St. Regis Hotel, 3 Sainte-Beuve, 265, 266 Salinger, 57, 125, 313 Samsa, 55, 90, 104, 156 San Miguel County, 199, 315 Saratoga, 322, 326 Sarraute, Mme, 173 Sartre, 173, 175, 212, 228-230 “Sartre’s First Try,” 228-230 satire, 75-76 Saturday Evening Post, The, 298 Saturday Review, The, 243, 308 scarab, 330 Scarce Heath, 182 Scarlet Pimpernel, 43 “Scenes one would like to have filmed,” 60-61 Schadenfreude, 220 Schenectady, 199 “schoolboy words of four letters,” 3 Schwartz, Delmore, 313 Schweitzer, Dr., 102, 115 Scientific Linguistics, 294 Scott, W. B., 296 Scrabble, 110 seal applauding, 61 “second-rate” writers, 54 “Secret Miracle, The,” 80 secretary, 179 Segalm Louis, 281-282 Seghers, Daniel, 168 Seine, 224 Selenginsk, 30 self-revelations, 148 Selvinski, Ilya, 87 Semancour, 266 Seneca St., 230 Sennett, Mack, 165n “September morns,” 101 Sergei, 189, 202 “serious” writers, 147 sex, 23, 133, 137 “Sexual Manipulations,” 304 Shade, John, 18, 59, 65, 71, 73, 91, 119, 169, 311 “Shades and Shadows,” 69-70 Shadows, The, 165n Shakespeare, 46, 60, 63, 72, 89, 126-127, 146, 151, 218, 291 The Tempest, 87Shalyapin, 171 Shaw, Irwin, 301 Shaw, J. Thomas, 246 Shchvogolev, 245 “She was a Child and I was a Child,” 83? Shenker, Israel, 181 Shepherd’s Fritillary, 333 Sheppard, R. Z., 120 Sherlock Holmes, 43, 129 Shoshone National Forest, 322, 325 Siberia, 30, 280 Sicily, 203 Sidorov, 265 Sie Kommt--Kommt Sie?, 188 Sierra Madre, 322, 323, 326, 328 “Signs and Symbols,” 302 Silesia, 188 Simmons, Mr. Ernest, 245 Simon and Schuster, 293n Simon, Claude, 173 “sincere and simple,” 32 Sirin, V., (see also Nabokov, Vladimir), xiii, 161, 227n, 241, 290 slapstick in N’s novels, 165 sleeping cars, 203 Slonim, Véra (see also Nabokov, Véra), 127-128 Small White, 60 Snow, C. P., 78 Snowy Range, 322, 323, 324, 327 Snowy Range Pass, 323, 324 “So what” (the “how,” the “what,” the “so what”), 66 soccer, 59-60 social comment, 41, 57 Social Revolutionaries, 96 Social Tunnel, 199, (“Social Tunnel”), 317 Socialist Realism, 64 Socialists, 147 Soda Mt., 199 Solovyov, Poliksena, 286 Solus Rex, 91 Solzhenitsyn, 126 Somov, 170 Song of Igor’s Campaign, The, 77 “Song of the Soup,” 286 Sous les Toits de Paris, 164 South America, 191 South Dakota, 199 Southern California, 182 Southwest, the, 28 Soviet bookstore, 247 Soviet readers, 295 Soviet Russia, 5, 36, 50, 58, 85-86, 96-97, 107, 126, 138, 148-149, 192, 205, 206, 214, 215, 244, 283n Soviet writers, 87-88 Sovremennye Zapiski, 65, 91, 223-227, 227n, 289 space, 120-121 Spanish butterflies, 334 sparrows, 139 Speak, Memory, 6, 65, 77, 89, 90, 120, 121, 129, 141, 145, 147, 153, 154, 169, 170n, 171, 171n, 197, 218, 288, 306 Speak On, Memory (or Mnemosyne), 198, 294 “Special to The New York Times,” 131 Spectator, 83n spine (reading with), 41 “Spring in Fialta: The Choice that Mimics Chance,” 288-289 springtails, 132 spruce, 332 “square,” 114 stained-window designs, 144 Stalin, 50, 112 Stalinists, 147 Stanford, 127, 290 State Minister of Justice, 188 Steinberg, Saul, 297 Steiner, George, 184, 288 Stendhal, 266, 297 Stern, Richard, 300 Sternberg, Josef von (see von Sternberg) Sterne, 74, 151, 213 Stevenson, 62, 83, 157 Stoner, 285 Srakhovski, Dr. Leonid, 294-295 Stravinsky, 171-172 stream-of-consciousness, 71 “Strong Opinions,” 115 Stuart, Dabney, 287-288 students (see also Cornell University, and Literature 311-312), 22, 32, 41 activists, 128style, 154 “suctorialist,” 228 Sue Eugene, 229 Sufrin, Paul, 183 Sunday Times, The, 110, 135, 214 supermarket music, 18 Superville, Jules, 172 Supplement to TriQuarterly 17, 303n surd, 179 Surinam, 178 Swallowtails Corsican, 334Swedes, 137 Swift, 74, 75 swimming pools, 18, 59 Swinburne, xii Swiss Broadcast, 183 Swiss taxes, 56 Swissair, 203 Switzerland (see also Montreux), 28, 56, 119, 122, 191, 192, 195, 298, 301 “symbolist” movement, 161 “symbols,” 304 tabanids, 200-201 Tabor, Mount, 285 Tagore, 57 Tailor’s Spasm, 133 talent, 33, 147 Talmey, Allen, 153 Tamara, 295 Tania, 235, 260 Taos, 270 tapeworms, 31 Tarasov, 98 “tartine de merde,” 152 Tatar, 119 Tatiana, 234, 235, 238, 254, 259, 260 taxes, 56, 124 Tchaikovsky (Chaykovski), 266 Tchelitchew, 171 telepathy, 80, telephone booth, 59 television (see TV) Telluride, Colorado, 199, 315-316, 325 Tempest, The, 87 Tender Thighs, 275 Tennessee, 199 tennis, 192 Tennyson, 257 terra, 121-122 Terra, Letters from, 123 Tery Peak, 199 Tertz, Abram, 126 Tessin, 199, 332 Teton National Forest, 322 Tetons, 324, 325 Texas, 300 Texture of Time, The (see time) Thackery, 258 “Themes and Targets,” 312 Theocritus, 258 Third Crusade, 188 “Three Meetings,” 295 Thurber, 312 Tibet, 114 Tiesenbausens, Engelbrecht von, of Livland, 188 tilt, 179 time, 141-142 and space, 120-121Time, 120, 129, 217 Time Machine, The, 103, 175 Times Educational Supplement, 335 Times Literary Supplement, The, 246 Times, London (see London Times) Times, New York (see New York Times) Titania, 334 “To be kind, to be proud to be fearless;” “To stink, to cheat, to torture,” 152 “To My Soul,” 132 Toffler, Alvin, 20 Togwotee Pass, 322, 323, 324, 325 Tolstoy, 28, 43, 46, 62, 65, 103, 112, 146, 147-148, 152, 157, 176, 230, 285, 286, 312 Tolstoy, Aleksey, 85-87 Tom, 229 Tom, Doubting, 79 Tomashevski, 245 Tomboy Road, 199, 317 totalitarianism, 156 “Touch of Russia, A,” 304 Tower, Ivory, 308 Toynbee, Philip, 179 train rouge, 203 Tralatitions, 196 Transformation (see Metamorphosis) transistors, 99, (“trucks and --”) 150 translation, 7, 13, 81, (mistakes in La Nausée) 228 translation of Nabokov’s novels, 105 Transparent Things, 178, 194-196 Traveler’s Favorites, 275 traveling, 56, (to museums) 169 Trilling, 312 Trinidad, 327 Trinity, 5 Trinity Day, 236 Triple Thinkers, The, 263 TriQuarterly, 284, 293n, 296, 303 Triquet, 234 trompe l’oeil, 167 Tropics, 200 trucks, 150 truth and misprints, 182 Try our Taal on a Taub, 74 Tsars, 148, 234 Tucker, Sophie, 229 tumblebugs, 132 Turgenev, 103, 146, 230 Turner, 167 Tutmosis IV, 330 tutor, 202 TV, 4, 13 Danish, 162Twelve, The, 97 Twin Sisters, 326 Twin-spot Fritillary, 331 Tyutchev, 112, 223
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