Vladimir Nabokov

Boyd, Brian. Nabokov’s Transition from Russian to English: Repudiation or Evolution?. 2007/08

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Bibliographic title
Nabokov’s Transition from Russian to English: Repudiation or Evolution?
Periodical or collection
Nabokov Studies
Periodical issue
v. 11
Page(s)
159-88
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Delivered in shorter form as a paper at the Transitional Nabokov conference, Oxford, 2007, organized by Will Norman and Duncan White. Reprinted as ch. 14 of Brian Boyd, Stalking Nabokov.

Abstract
Challenges Alexander Dolinin's 2005 claim in "Nabokov as a Russian Writer" that Nabokov in his years of English success engaged in "tricky myth-making," downplaying his Russianness and his debt to Russian language literature, and the value of his Russian in comparison with his English works, and emphasizing that he was a born cosmopolitan.