The screenplay for Kubrick’s 1962 film tells the story of an older man’s obsession with a young girl.
"It was Nabokov's gift to bring Paradise wherever he alighted." —John Updike, The New York Times Book Review
Vladimir Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for America, where he wrote some of his greatest works—Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962)—and translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
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The screenplay for Kubrick’s 1962 film tells the story of an older man’s obsession with a young girl.
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"It was Nabokov's gift to bring Paradise wherever he alighted." —John Updike, The New York Times Book Review
Author
Vladimir Nabokov studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin. In 1940, he left France for America, where he wrote some of his greatest works—Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962)—and translated his earlier Russian novels into English. He taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
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