Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings"Literature and Lepidoptera dance an elaborate pas de deux through seventy years of Vladimir Nabokov's life, from his boyhood in Russia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.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Contents
NABOKOV LITERATURE LEPIDOPTERA | 1 |
Vladimir Nabokov at eight with butterfly book 1907 | 83 |
VN with handdrawn insignia c 1924 | 112 |
VNs manuscript of poem Butterflies c 192629 | 122 |
VN with net late 1920s ? | 125 |
VN in the East Pyrenees 1929 | 127 |
VNs 1938 catch in Moulinet France which he described and named Lysandra cormion | 238 |
VN with Dorothy Leuthold who drove the family from New York to Palo Alto June 1941 | 245 |
Butterfly drawings in letter to Wilson June 1944 | 315 |
Locality map to help James Laughlin locate Lycaeides melissa annetta July 1944 | 316 |
Evolution and speciation of uncus in Lycaeides Notes on the Morphology of the Genus Lycaeides 1944 | 317 |
Wingmarking schema in Lycaeides Notes on the Morphology 1944 | 325 |
Parachilades titicaca left hindwing underside Notes on Neotropical Plebejinae 1945 | 357 |
Echinargus n sp left hindwing underside Notes on Neotropical Plebejinae 1945 | 369 |
Aspects of the male genital armature in four species Notes on Neotropical Plebejinae 1945 | 371 |
Signature flourish on letter to Wilson February 1946 | 390 |
1014 The Nabokovs with Dorothy Leuthold as they traveled west 24647 | 253 |
Signature flourish on letter to Edmund Wilson June 1942 | 266 |
VN with butterflies and students of Georgia State College for Women Valdosta October 1942 | 270 |
VN names an inkblot | 289 |
Butterfly drawing on letter to Wilson January 1944 | 298 |
NOTES | 723 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 742 |
BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS NAMED BY AND | 751 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 759 |
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