Nabokov's butterflies : unpublished and uncollected writings

Title
  1. Nabokov's butterflies : unpublished and uncollected writings / edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle ; new translations from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov.
Published by
  1. Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, [2000], ©2000.
Supplementary content
  1. Contributor biographical information
  2. Publisher description
Author
  1. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.

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Additional authors
  1. Nabokov, Dmitri
  2. Boyd, Brian, 1952-
  3. Pyle, Robert Michael
Description
  1. xiv, 782 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Summary
  1. "Literature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia to his life as an emigre in the Crimea, Berlin, France, the United States, and finally in Switzerland. An American literary giant, Nabokov also produced first-rate work as a scientist, and in his fiction and elsewhere eloquently advocated attention to the details of the natural world and promoted the delights of discovery." "Nabokov's Butterflies presents Nabokov's twin passions through an astonishingly rich array of novel selections, stories, poems, screenplay, autobiography, criticism, lecturers, articles, reviews, interviews, letters, and notes, plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field."--Jacket.
  2. "Literature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia to his life as an emigre in the Crimea, Berlin, France, the United States, and finally in Switzerland. An American literary giant, Nabokov also produced first-rate work as a scientist, and in his fiction and elsewhere eloquently advocated attention to the details of the natural world and promoted the delights of discovery.".
  3. "Nabokov's Butterflies presents Nabokov's twin passions through an astonishingly rich array of novel selections, stories, poems, screenplay, autobiography, criticism, lecturers, articles, reviews, interviews, letters, and notes, plus a wealth of beautiful and fanciful drawings by Nabokov and photographs of him in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  1. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
  2. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977 > Contributions in entomology
  3. Nabokov, Vladimir, 1899-1977
  4. Nabokov, Vladimir, (1899-1977) > Et l'entomologie
  5. Butterflies
  6. Butterflies > Literary collections
  7. 18.53 Russian literature
  8. 18.06 Anglo-American literature
  9. 42.75 insects
  10. Schmetterlinge
  11. Vlinders
  12. Bellettristen
  13. Russisch
  14. Papillons > Collectionneurs et collections
Genre/Form
  1. Literary collections.
  2. Letters (form)
  3. Insertions (Provenance)
Contents
  1. Abbreviations -- Illustrations -- Nabokov, Literature, Lepidoptera -- Brian Boyd -- Between climb and cloud: Nabokov among the Lepidopterists -- Robert Michael Pyle -- Nabokov's Butterflies: Selected writings 1908--1977 -- Father's butterflies: Second addendum to the gift -- Butterflies of Europe -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Brian Boyd -- Butterflies and moths named by and For Vladimir Nabokov -- Robert Michael Pyle -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Includes scientific articles previously published in various journals and excerpts from literary works.
  2. Previously unpublished works include a translation of an appendix to the novel Dar.
  3. Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 742-750) and index.