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 on the menu above to get to the commentary for each novel; right now, only Mary is available. 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: Henry James/Cinema, published in the SUNY Press 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!