Offering original insights into Nabokov and his interaction with other writers and art forms, this volume of a two-part study includes the work of 15 eminent Nabokov specialists and scholars. Here, the focus is on intertextuality, literary reception, and suggestions for new ways of reading.

Offering original insights into Nabokov and his interaction with other writers and art forms, this, the second volume of a two-part study, includes the work of fifteen eminent Nabokov specialists and scholars. Here, the focus is on intertextuality, literary reception and suggestions for new ways of reading.

Nabokov's complex multi-lingual and multi-cultural writings offer new delights and present new challenges to their readers. This volume reflects the richness of this artistic world and the variety of responses it evokes. Fourteen original essays by an international grouping of leading Nabokov specialists and scholars offer new insights into formative influences on thought and the dominant agencies that structure his writing: emigration, the "two worlds" theme, and multilingualism.