Vladimir Nabokov Quotes


I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.


Citations

Nabokov, Vladimir. Invitation to a Beheading. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1959.

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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
  • Born: April 22, 1899
  • Died: July 2, 1977
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Professor

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Russia, he wrote his first nine novels in Russian (1926–1938) while living in Berlin. He achieved international acclaim and prominence after moving to the United States and beginning to write in English. Nabokov became an American citizen in 1945, but he and his wife returned to Europe in 1961, settling in Montreux, Switzerland.