Vladimir Nabokov
Born: 04-21-1899
Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American novelist renowned for his intricate narrative style and linguistic prowess. Born in 1899 in Saint Petersburg, he gained fame with works like "Lolita" and "Pale Fire." Nabokov's writing is celebrated for its vivid imagery and complex themes, often exploring memory and identity. A multilingual genius, he also excelled as a literary critic and lepidopterist, contributing significantly to both literature and science.
Book summaries for books written by Vladimir Nabokov
Quotes
The dead die hard, they are trespassers on the beyond, they must take the place as powerful and relentless as despite on the highest mountain, as wave succeeding wave up a long, blind swineherd's work.
The murderer is with us—on the train now.
The snow is water, as life is water... I am water in another form.
To love reality is to love silence.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
No memory is genuine. I have made a collection of false memories.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
I exist because I think and I cannot stop thinking.
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain by the false azure in the windowpane.
In the cycle of erection and collapse time builds only to fall; and when, he asks himself, will the cycle close?