Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), at first he wanted to use his notes in toto at his trial:

In the opening line of his poem Kakoe sdelal ya durnoe delo… (“What is the evil deed I have committed?" 1959) VN mentions durnoe delo (the evil deed):

Describing his meeting with Lolita in Camp Q, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions the fates and uses the phrase “in a wink:”

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), it took him fifty-six days (eight weeks) to write Lolita:

After three years of unsuccessful investigations Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) finally tracks down Clare Quilty to Pavor Manor, a wooden house on Grimm Road:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), he spent the night that preceded the murder of Clare Quilty (who lives not far from Parkington) in Insomnia Lodge:

On Demonia (aka Antiterra, Earth’s twin planet on which Ada, 1969, is set) Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary (1857) is known as Floeberg’s Ursula:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), Miss Phalen broke her hip in Savannah, Ga., on the very day he arrived in Ramsdale and moved in the Haze house:

Describing his life with Ada in his old age, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions his old valet, Stepan Nootkin:

According to Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969), Dr Fitzbishop (a surgeon in the Kalugano hospital where Van recovers from the wound received in a pistol duel with Captain Tapper) is a poshlyak: