Sergey Karpukhin writes: 

 

This might be interesting to those who know Eric Naiman's work on Nabokov. Even though VN is only mentioned two or three times in the article, there is something Nabokovian about the story and its protagonist.

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1243205.ece

 

[EDNOTE. This is indeed a fascinating essay and a remarkable literary detective story, reminiscent, as Naiman himself points out, of the hoaxes and fabulations of many of VN's protagonists. - SES]