Vladimir Nabokov

John Zabawa, Blue Air, 2018 . “At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.”...

Earl Eyman, The Trapeze toy, 1925 . "Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched...

Evening drawing school, Boston, 1892 . L'Inconnue de la Seine (The Unknown Woman of the Seine) was an unidentified young...

James Joyce, age six, 1888 ...

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Gallimard), 1959 Olympia Press, Paris, 1955, first edition London,...

Дар, Dar / The Gift, 1952 ...

anon "Memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that...

anon "I dreamt of you last night—as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for...

Vladimir Nabokov and Véra, his future wife, Berlin, 1924 . c 26 July 1923 “I won’t hide it. I’m so...

Hiroshi Awatsuji , Sou, 1988 “Without any wind blowing, the sheer weight of a raindrop, shining in parasitic luxury on...