Couturier, Maurice. A Forty-year Journey in Nabokovland. 2009

Couturier shares with readers his memoir "A Forty-year Journey in Nabokovland." This is a chronicle of Couturier's long life with Nabokov's works and ghost, and therefore a continuation of the memoirs of his peasant childhood, Chronique de l'oubli (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008). This is the tale, at once sad and funny, of a passionate love for a prestigious author who largely contributed to shaping the life of his exegete. It is also a sincere attempt on the part of the latter to reassess his relationship with other Nabokov specialists in the English-speaking world and to contemplate his contribution to Nabokov studies.