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

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NOTESTOTRANSPARENTTHINGS
1 Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, (Weidenfeld
and Nicolson, London, 1973).
2 Herbert Grabes, Erfundene Biographien, Vladimir
Nabokovs Englische Romane, (Tübingen, 1975).
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p. this Transparent Things, pp. 46-47: "You
were served a cup of hot milk. You also got, separately,
a little sugar and a dainty-looking envelope
of sorts. You ripped open the upper margin
of the envelope. You added the beige dust it contained
to the ruthlessly homogenized milk in your
cup. You took a sip - and hurried to add sugar. "
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Robert Alter, "Mirrors for Immortality", Saturday
Review of Literature, 11 November, 1972, p. 73.
Ibid., p. 74.
Vladimir Nabokov in an Interview of which he says:
"The New York Newspaper for which this interview,
conducted by correspondence in 1972, was intended,
refused to publish it. "
Published in Vladimir Nabokov, Strong opinions,
p. 195.
G. M. Hyde, Vladimir Nabokov America's Russian
Novelist, (London, 1977), p. 203.,
Julian Moynahan, Vladimir Nabokov, University of
Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, 96,
(Minneapolis, 1971), p. 12.
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Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memo, (Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, London, 1972), p. 27.
Vladimir Nabokov in a BBC-2 Interview with James
Mossman, published "in an incomplete form" in
The Listener, 23 October, 1969, printed "from my
final typescript" in Vladimir Nabokov, Strong
Opinions, p. 141.
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, p. 25.
Herbert Grabes, Erfundene Biographien, pp. 96-97.
Op. cit., p. 98.
Martha Duffy, "Big R/ Big N; Transparent Things
by Vladimir Nabokov", Time, 11 December, 1972, p. 64.
Robert Alter, "Mirrors for Immortality", p. 72.
16 Cp. Note 6.