''Vladimir Nabokov's Comic Quest for Reality' - Nottingham eTheses

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Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian
Knight, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1960),
p. 85.
Quoted in Martha Duffy, "Prospero's Progress",
p. 49.
45 Page Stegner, Escape into Aesthetics, p. 117.
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Douglas Fowler, Reading Nabokov, p. 99.
Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian
Knight, pp. 89ff.
7th Jüly: 1.286; Gradus has flown from Copenhagen
to Paris, p. 174.
10th July: 1.408; Gradus driving from Geneva to
Lex, p. 197.
16th July: 11.698-746; Gradus at Nice, meeting
Izumrudov, pp. 254ff., etc.
49 Carol T. Williams points out that when writing
of his father's death, "Nabokov clearly suggests
that his father's death was only from one point
of view a poignant mistake; it was also, he
writes, his father's destiny or fate ("several
lines of play in a difficult chess composition
blended...
...
"), meeting him at an appointed
time. " - Carol T. Williams, "'Web of Sense':
Pale Fire in the Nabokov Canon", Critique, 6,3
(Winter 1963-64), p. 35.
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Page Stegner, Escape into Aesthetics, p. 126.
Andrew Field, "Pale Fire, The labyrinth of a
great novel", p. 20.
cp. pp. 77,83,85,149,284,294,295,298,299.
cp. pp. 83,267.
Andrew Field, "Pale Fire, the labyrinth of a
great novel", p. 28.
Nova Zembla: a group of islands in the Arctic
Ocean. 'Nova Zembla' = Russian Novaya Zemlya'
_ 'New Land' or 'Terre Neuve' = 'Newfoundland'
_ 'The New World' - Therefore: Appalachia =
Zembl a.
Zembla for Pope was roughly equal to Greenland.
Then Zembla must be a green land, an Arcadia.
Arcady is a name often bestowed by Prof. Botkin
on New Wye, Appalachia, which also gets the
epithet 'green'.
Mary McCarthy, "Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire",
p. 74.