Welcome to all. This is the rejuvenation of a Word Press blogging of Nabokov’s novels that documented a reading journey through all of them in chronological order. I suspended work on the site several years ago because other professional responsibilities kept me away, but now, as an emeritus faculty member, I have the time to get it up and running again. I am blogging all of Nabokov’s novels early and late; the early novels are the translations of the Russian originals into English as I do not read Russian! I began the blog earlier with Mary, and got 80% of the way through the novel before suspending the blog, so I am replicating the entries from the earlier blog here and then finishing off the reading of that first novel. Click on the category links above to go to a specific novel; right now, only the first, Mary, appears. I welcome all questions or responses.
Quickly about myself: I am a retired professor of English from Michigan State University. I’ve authored/edited a number of books on modern and contemporary fiction, the most recent being Knowing it When You See It: HenryJames/Cinema published in the SUNY Press Lit . . . in Theory series. Currently, I am co-editing an encyclopedia of contemporary American fiction 1980-2020 with Stephen Burn and Lesley Larkin.. Thanks for checking in on my blog!