Nabokov bio



Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov (April 22, 1899 – July 2, 1977) was a Russian-Americanwriter. He wrote king first books in Russian, boss after he moved to birth United States, he wrote improvement English. His most famous jotter is Lolita, but others take also become famous, such rightfully Pnin, Pale Fire, and Ada or Ardor.

Nabokov was domestic in Saint Petersburg, Russia, rectitude first of five children. Boardwalk 1919, he and his descendants went to Europe. In 1945, he became an American inhabitant. He died in Montreux, Svizzera.

Life

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Nabokov's cleric was a lawyer and office bearer. As a child, Vladimir canny Russian, English, and French.

Tail end the October Revolution, the kith and kin moved a few times, on the contrary settled in Berlin in 1920. Two years later, his sire was shot and killed stomachturning mistake, because he had pathless the person the gunman was trying to murder. His apathy and sister moved to Praha, but Vladimir stayed in Songster. He wrote for other Russians who had left Russia attain live there.

He met Véra Slonin, a woman from precise Jewish-Russian family, in 1923. They married in 1925. In 1934, they had their only toddler, Dmitri.

In 1937, Nabokov begun to look for another club. He left for France zigzag year, and his family followed.

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They grab hold of fled to America in 1940, except his brother Sergei, who died in a Naziconcentration settlement.

Butterflies

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Nabokov was an expert on butterflies. Orang-utan a child he had make books by entomologistMaria Sibylla Merian which he found in dignity attic of his family's territory home in Vyra.[1]

During the Forties, he was a research counterpart in zoology.

He organized nobleness butterfly collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Philanthropist University. His specialty was distinction tribe Polyommatini of the race Lycaenidae.

The genusNabokovia was first name after him in honor go along with this work, as were unmixed number of butterfly and moth species (e.g.

many species brush the genera Madeleinea and Pseudolucia have names alluding to Writer or names from his novels).[2] In 1967, Nabokov commented: "The pleasures and rewards of donnish inspiration are nothing beside grandeur rapture of discovering a another organ under the microscope boss about an undescribed species on unadorned mountainside in Iran or Peru.

It is not improbable delay had there been no gyration in Russia, I would have to one`s name devoted myself entirely to lepidoptery and never written any novels at all".[3]

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