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
Words, words, words – mere words, no matter from the heart.
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
The snow is water, as life is water... I am water in another form.
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain by the false azure in the windowpane.
To love reality is to love silence.
I exist because I think and I cannot stop thinking.
The secrets I have kept require such scrutiny to probe!
Well, I must put the mirror in its rack before the family awakes.
Real things are valuable only to the extent that they resemble and represent the secret immaterial world of their reality.
I will gladly seize any incident, event, or object, and will attempt to examine, evaluate, describe it in terms of my own experience.
No memory is genuine. I have made a collection of false memories.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.