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- 436 - 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 op. cit., p. 290. Op. cit., pp. 291-292. Vladimir Nabokov, "On A Book Entitled Lolita", Lolita, p. 301. 66 67 Vladimir Nabokov in an Interview with Peter Duval Smith and Nicolas Burstall, Vladimir Nabokov, Strong opinions, p. 16. Martha Duffy, "Prospero's Progress", p. 54. Mary McCarthy, "Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire", Encounter, XIX (October 1962), p. 71. Kenneth Allsop, "After Lolita is this Nabokov just pulling our legs? " Daily Mail, 6 November, 1962, p. 12. Vladimir Nabokov in a BBC-2 Interview with Nicholas Garnharn, The Listener, October 10,1968, reprinted in Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions, p. 118. Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 31962), p. 130. Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy, (Chatto and Windus, London, 1972), p. 42. Loc. cit. A. J. Ayer, The Central Questions of Philosophy, (Penguin Book, Harmondsworth, London, 21977), Loc. cit. Loc. cit. Loc. cit. Loc. cit. Loc. cit. Op. cit., p. 72. Loc. cit. Loc. cit. Loc. cit. Op. cit., p. 78. Loc. cit. Loc. cit. p. 70.
- 437 - 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 Loc. cit. 02. cit., p. 9. Op. cit., p. 10. Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1966), p. 103. Vladimir Nabokov in an Interview with Peter Duval Smith and Christopher Burstall, Vladimir Nabokov, Strong opinions, pp. 10-i1. R. H. W. Dillard, "Not Text, But Texture: The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov", The Hollins Critic, Vol. III, No. 3 (June 1966), pp. -. Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye, p. 91. Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Thin s, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1973), p. Vladimir Nabokov in an Interview with Alvin Toffler, Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions, pp. 44-45. Henri Bergson, Laughter, An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, Authorized Translation by C. Brereton and F. Rothwell, (London, 1935), p. 152. Vladimir Nabokov in an Interview with Allene Talmey, Vogue, (Christmas Number 1969), reprinted in Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions), p. 154. Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, p. 2. Loc. cit. 81 Op. cit., P-8. 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, p. 130. Loc. cit. Vladimir Nabokov in an Interview with Alvin Toffler, Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions, p. 32. Vladimir Nabokov, "Pouchkine ou le vrai et le vraisemblable", La nouvelle revue francaise, March 1937, pp. 362-378. Ibid., p. 377. Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, p. 27. Vladimir Nabokov in an Interview with Alfred Appel, Jr., conducted by Alfred Appel, Jr., L. S. Dembo, ed., Nabokov, The Man and His Work, (Madison, 1967), p. 32.
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Abstract Nabokov once said that "re
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I. The Eye Pnin Lolita; Laughter*in
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- 300 - rendering a certain sound t
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- 302 - I have grown much too used
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- 329 - perhaps in some archaic let
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- 476 - "Vladimir Nabokov on His Li
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- 480 - Stuart, Dabney, Nabokov, Th
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- 482 - Dembo, L. S., "Vladimir Nab
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