The Mystery of Vladimir Nabokov

A Lacanian Study of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

This paper is an attempt to explore how Lacanian concepts of desire, unconscious, as well as alienation are reflected in the major characters of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov’s Lolita. Before unleashing the new, inexplicable yet highly fascinating aspects of psychoanalysis by the advent of French poststructuralist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Freudian psychoanalysis used to play the pivota...

a lacanian study of lolita by vladimir nabokov

this paper is an attempt to explore how lacanian concepts of desire, unconscious, as well as alienation are reflected in the major characters of vladimir vladimirovich nabokov’s lolita. before unleashing the new, inexplicable yet highly fascinating aspects of psychoanalysis by the advent of french poststructuralist and psychoanalyst jacques lacan, freudian psychoanalysis used to play the pivota...

Nabokov and World Literature

In his paper "Nabokov and World Literature" Charles Stanley Ross thinks through the relationship between comparative literature and cultural studies by considering the absence of Nabokov's work in The Norton Anthology of World Literature. The problem seems to be that Nabokov's works are not susceptible to the kind of varying interpretations favored by the Norton's editors, although in practice,...

Nabokov, Teleology, and Insect Mimicry

Memories of Vladimir Arnold

1. Dima Arnold in my life, by Dmitry Fuchs Unfortunately, I have never been Arnold’s student, although as a mathematician, I owe him a lot. He was just two years older than I, and according to the University records, the time distance between us was still less: when I was admitted to the Moscow State University as a freshman, he was a sophomore. We knew each other, but did not communicate much....