nabokov

     

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Trivia about nabokov

  • In his autobiography "Speak, Memory", he called "Lolita" "a painful birth, a difficult baby"
  • His lovesick narrator begins, "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins"
  • This author of "Lolita" wrote 18 scientific papers on entomology
  • In the song "Don’t Stand So Close To Me", The Police mention this "Lolita" author
  • A butterfly expert, he wrote much of "Lolita" while on butterfly hunting trips with his wife
  • This Russian-American novelist published his early Russian works as V. Sirin
  • Reminiscent of another of his novels, his "The Original of Laura" features a lecher named Hubert H. Hubert