Nabokov
St. Petersburg Exhibition Shows Nabokov Under (and Behind) a Microscope
By ALEXANDER OSIPOVICH, The New York Times, July 26, 2006
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, July 25 — Just over a century ago, in June 1906, a 7-year-old Vladimir Nabokov caught his first butterfly.
Although he eventually gained worldwide fame as a writer — especially after the publication in 1955 of his scandalous best-selling novel “Lolita” — he also maintained a lifelong passion for lepidopterology, the branch of entomology that focuses on moths and butterflies.
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By ALEXANDER OSIPOVICH, The New York Times, July 26, 2006
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, July 25 — Just over a century ago, in June 1906, a 7-year-old Vladimir Nabokov caught his first butterfly.
Although he eventually gained worldwide fame as a writer — especially after the publication in 1955 of his scandalous best-selling novel “Lolita” — he also maintained a lifelong passion for lepidopterology, the branch of entomology that focuses on moths and butterflies.
( Read More )