Nabokov's butterflies
Subtitle: unpublished and uncollected writings
By: edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle ; new translations from the Russian by Dmitri Nabokov.
Contributors: Boyd, Brian, 1952-; Pyle, Robert Michael.; Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 782
Subjects: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.; Butterflies.; Butterflies -- Literary collections.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: "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.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 742-750) and index.
Includes scientific articles previously published in various journals and excerpts from literary works.
Previously unpublished works include a translation of an appendix to the novel Dar.