Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov papers, 1918-1974 (bulk 1925-1965). - 7,000 items. 22 1 containers plus oversize. 13 microfilm reels. 8.4 linear feet.

Open to research.

Correspondence, notes, and holograph and typescript drafts, galley proofs, page proofs, and printed versions of biographies, book reviews, essays, interviews, memoirs, novellas, novels, plays, poems, short stories, and translations of works by others. Includes Conclusive Evidence, A Memoir (1951), Nabokov's translation of Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse (1964) and of The Song of Igor's Campaign; An Epic of the Twelfth Century (1960), and the screenplay of Lolita (1961). Includes Nabokov's novels such as Bend Sinister (1947), Dar (The Gift; 1952), Lolita (1955), Mashenʹka (Mary; 1926), Otchai͡anie (Despair; 1936), Pale Fire (1962), Podvig (Glory; 1932), Prigiashenīe na kaznʹ (Invitation to a Beheading; 1938), The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941), and Zashchita Luzhina (The Defense; 1930). Nabokov's plays include Izobretenie Valʹsa (The Waltz Invention; 1938), Polius (The Pole; 1924), and Sobytie (The Event; 1938), and an unpublished play (The Tragedy of Mr. Morn). Correspondents include I͡Uliĭ Isaevich Aĭkhenvalʹd, Mark Aleksandrovich Aldanov, Nathan Banks, Gaston Baty, Nina Nikolaevna Berberova, Nikolaĭ Berdi͡aev, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, Altagracia de Jannelli, Vladislav Felit͡sianovich Khodasevich, Ivan Lukash, V. A. Maklakov, Charles Duncan Michener, Peter Alexander Pertzoff, Jarl Priel, Borïs Rapchïnskiï, V.V. Rudnev, Zinaïda Schakovskoy, Gleb Struve, and Vladimir Zenzinov, as well as various Russian-language emigré publishers and publications such as Petropolis, Novoe russkoe slovo, Poslednie novosti, Russki zapiski, and Sovremennye zapiski.




Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division.
Washington, D.C. :
Library of Congress Photoduplication Service,
2009.


Poet, novelist, literary critic, lecturer, and translator.


Collection material chiefly in English and Russian with French and German.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009086

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Aĭkhenvalʹd, I͡U. I. 1872-1928 --Correspondence.
Aldanov, Mark Aleksandrovich, 1886-1957 --Correspondence.
Banks, Nathan, 1868- --Correspondence.
Baty, Gaston--Correspondence.
Berberova, Nina Nikolaevna--Correspondence.
Berdi͡aev, Nikolaĭ, 1874-1948 --Correspondence.
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich, 1870-1953 --Correspondence.
Jannelli, Altagracia de--Correspondence.
Khodasevich, V. F. 1886-1939 --Correspondence.
Lukash, Ivan, 1892-1940 --Correspondence.
Maklakov, V. A. 1870-1957 --Correspondence.
Michener, Charles Duncan, 1918- --Correspondence.
Pertzoff, Peter Alexander--Correspondence.
Priel, Jarl--Correspondence.
Rapchïnskiï, Borïs, 1887- --Correspondence.
Rudnev, V. V.--Correspondence.
Schakovskoy, Zinaïda, princesse, 1906-2001 --Correspondence.
Struve, Gleb--Correspondence.
Zenzinov, V. 1880-1953 --Correspondence.


Petropolis.
Novoe russkoe slovo.
Poslednie novosti.
Russki zapiski.
Sovremennye zapiski.


Literature.
Motion picture plays.
Poetry.


Authors.
Critics.
Lecturers.
Translators.