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Dr. Yuri Leving / ユーリイ・レヴィング博士（ ダル ハ ウ ジ ー 大学 ロ シ ア 研 究学 科 主 任 教 授）

ナボコフ、『プレイボーイ』と1960年代のアメリカ
1960s
960s
Набоков, <<Плейбой>>, и Америка 1960-х / Nabokov, "Playboy," and the America of the 1（英語、通訳なし。討論はロシア語も可）
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Yuri Leving earned his PhD (summa cum laude) in 2002, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,and continued his research in visual arts at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He came
to Dalhousie University after two years teaching at The George Washington University (2004-2006).
His main field of interest is Russian literature, culture and film. Leving is the author of several books
and over 70 scholarly articles on various aspects of Russian and comparative literature. He served as acommentator on the first authorized Russian edition of The Collected Works of Vladimir Nabokov in fivevolumes (1999-2001), and was the curator for the exhibition “Nabokov’s Lolita: 1955 2005” inWashington, DC, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Lolita. He is the founding
editor of the Nabokov Online Journal (since 2007).
詳しくは以下のウェブページを参照：
http://russianstudies.dal.ca/Faculty%20and%20Staff/Yuri_Leving.php
レ ヴ ィン グ 氏 の 著 書・ 編 書 （単行本に限る。その他論文多数）
1. Anatomy of a Short Story. Nabokov’s Puzzles, Codes, ‘Signs and Symbols.’ Ed. by Y. Leving. New York:Continuum, 2012, 300 pp.
2. Keys to The Gift. A Guide to V. Nabokov's Novel. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2011. Cloth, 580 pp.
3. Upbringing by Optics: Book Illustration, Animation, and Text. Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2010,
560 pp.
4. The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac. Ed. by Y. Leving. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2010.
Cloth, 326 pp.
5.Train Station Garage Hangar (Vladimir Nabokov and Poetics of Russian Urbanism) / [Vokzal GarazhAngar. V. Nabokov i poetika russkogo urbanizma]. St. Petersburg: Ivan Limbakh Publishing House,
2004, 400 pp.
6. Empire N. Nabokov and Heirs [Imperia N. Nabokov i nasledniki]. Co-edited with Evgeniy Soshkin.

Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2006, 563 рр.
7. Eglantine: Collection of Philological Essays to Honor the Sixtieth Anniversary of Roman Timenchik.
[“Shipovnik”] Co-edited with Alexander Ospovat and Yuri Tsivian. Moscow: Vodolei Publishers, 2005, 568
pp.

報告要旨
Набоков, ｫ ПлейбойｻПлейбойｻ , и Америка 1960-х
Nabokov, “Playboy,” and the America of the 1960s
This paper focuses on the American Nabokov and his engagement with the magazine and popular
culture through the 1960s. I will argue that Vladimir Nabokov’s long-lasting relationship with the men’smagazine can be treated as a much more serious engagement with contemporary mass culture, one thatstill functions even today (as demonstrated by Playboy’s acquisition of the first serial rights of The
Original ofLaura, Nabokov’s final, unfinished work, in 2009).
To shed light on the creative bond between Nabokov and Playboy, I will use the previously unpublishedsources from the Berg Collection (New York Public Library). The archive contains correspondence not
only between Nabokov and Hefner, but more importantly, with the literary editors of Playboy, A. C.
Spectorsky, and then Robie McCauley, who published some of the best fiction and interviews in America
in the1960s.
This paper is interdisciplinary in its scope and it deals not only with Nabokov but also touches upon
the visual arts and popular culture of the period (it will be accompanied by a PPT presentation withpictures mainly the beautiful illustrations to Nabokov’s prose by two leading American painters of the1960s generation; both artists still cherish their experience of illustrating "The Eye," "Despair," and"Ada" for Playboy magazine and were interviewed specially for the purposes of this research). I will
suggest that for all of Nabokov’s protestations to the contrary, he very much utilized his relationshipwith Playboy to market his literary works to a mass audience.