![]() A thoroughly researched biography has been needed for years, and a superb one is at hand. Despite his own autobiographical writings, most people still know him onlyįor his books in English and have little perception of the man himself. Famous he may have been, but well known he was not. The fortune ''Lolita''īrought him allowed him to quit teaching and to move to Switzerland where he lived the rest of his life. ![]() Teaching on several campuses, notably at Cornell University.īefore ''Lolita'' was published he was known only to a handful of people here who had read his Russian works and to an even more select group as an investigator and discoverer of new species of butterflies. Twenty years later he fled Europe when the Nazis overran it, and he spent the next two decades in the United States, In Russia, had fled his native country at the age of 20 after the Bolshevik Revolution and the civil war that followed. In the 1950's, the novel ''Lolita'' created a sensation in this country and its author, Vladimir Nabokov, became an instant celebrity as one of the best writers of English. ![]() Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy SERGEI DAVYDOV Sergei Davydov, a professor of Russian at Middlebury College in Vermont, is the author of ''The Matreshka-Texts of Vladimir Nabokov'' and is working on a book about Pushkin's fiction and history. October 14, 1990, Sunday, Late Edition - Final ![]()
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