“Literature
was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out
of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was
born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no
wolf behind him.”
Vladimir Nabokov
(1899 - 1977)
Curious facts about
While living in Berlin, Nabokov wrote for the Russian newspaper, The Rudder, had a number of walk-on appearances in German movies, and was a tutor, a translator, and a tennis instructor.
Nabokov was an insomniac as addressed in his autobiography, Speak, Memory:(1899 - 1977)
Curious facts about
While living in Berlin, Nabokov wrote for the Russian newspaper, The Rudder, had a number of walk-on appearances in German movies, and was a tutor, a translator, and a tennis instructor.
Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals.
Nabokov was also a lepidopterist (a specialist in the study of butterflies).
Nabokov taught at Stanford, Wellesley, Cornell, and Harvard (as a visiting lecturer), and was a working entomologist at Harvard, where he discovered several species and subspecies of butterflies