"A Lolita bizonyos értelemben túlságosan nagy regény. Úgy zúdul rá az olvasóra, mint valami kábítószer, amely erősebb, mint bármelyik, am...

Cincinnatus C.-t halálra ítélik, és bezárják egy erődítményben lévő börtönbe, mert ő egy "átlátszatlan" (igazi) ember, míg a többiek "átl...

A Nevetés a sötétben már-már lektűr (bár ezt írni szinte istenkáromlás Nabokov esetében) - vagy éppenséggel annak is olvasható: olyan, bo...

Eszményien kopasz fej, teknőckeretes szemüveg, majomszerű felső ajak, tweedzakóba bújtatott díjbirkózó törzs és vörös alapon lila rombusz...

Kellemes komédia egy kissé habókos orosz emigráns professzorról, aki reménytelen küzdelmet folytat az angol nyelvvel éppúgy, mint a szívé...

The most controversial classic novel of the 20th century, Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who is aroused to ...

The most controversial classic novel of the 20th century, Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who is aroused to ...

Berlin in den zwanziger Jahren: In einer kleinen Pension wohnt eine Gruppe russischer Emigranten. Einer von ihnen, Lew Ganin, durchlebt i...

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the fi...

«In Übereinstimmung mit dem Gesetz wurde Cincinnatus C. das Todesurteil im Flüsterton mitgeteilt.» Ein Mann sitzt im Gefängnis, auf die H...

«Mademoiselle O» enthält Nabokovs Erzählungen aus den Jahren 1935-1939, noch geschrieben in russischer Sprache. Es sind die Jahre seines ...

Franz, ein junger Man n aus der Provinz, reist in die Hauptstadt und wird Verkäufer in einem Warenhaus seines Onkels Dreyer. Bald bahnt s...

The most controversial classic novel of the 20th century, Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who is aroused to ...

'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfo...

Nabokov schrieb die Fassung seiner Lebenserinnerung zwischen 1943 und 1951 in den Vereinigten Staaten. Sie umfassen die Jahre 1899 bis 19...

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov's to Véra Slonim. She shared his deligh...

The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine ‘Average Man’ party. Under the slogans of equali...

Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.

The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career...

Spring in Fialta -- Forgotten poet -- First love -- Signs and symbols -- Assistant producer -- Aurelian -- Cloud, castle, lake -- ...

In Pale Fire, Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword...

In this collection of short stories Vladimir Nabokov reflects upon the Russian "emigre" world of the 20s and 30s. Disconsolate, uprooted ...

The story of Humbert Humbert, poet and pervert, and his obsession with 12-year-old Dolores Haze. Determined to possess his "Lolita" both ...

Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian émigrés. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first...