-
Nabokov in Minnesota: August 1942
- Nabokov Studies
- International Vladimir Nabokov Society and Davidson College
- Volume 1, 1994
- p. 114
- 10.1353/nab.2011.0086
- Article
- Additional Information
Nabokov Studies, 1 (1994), 114. J.B. Sisson (Edina, MN, U.S.A.) NABOKOV IN MINNESOTA August 1942 After the movie he walked back against the cold November wind. A lightning bolt out of the black blasted through him, a white knight pinned, struck with the farce of a concussion: an urge to write again in Russian there in that distant northern stateimpossible , tormented fate. All English was illusion still. He lost his lecture, unlike Pnin. Without lip-syncing like Van Veen, he stifled silence by sheer will and stammered like a king stark mad, while Stalin circled Stalingrad. ...