…хозяин почему-то… — VéN to Robin Kemball, February 13, 1990, VNA.
«Я живу в Монтрё…» — VéN to E. Levin, October 5, 1989, VNA.
«горбатой старухой» до «…выразительным лицом» — Е. Levin to VéN, October 20, 1989, VNA.
…почти не осталось радости… — Interviews with DN, May 26, 1998, Nikki Smith, September 24, 1998.
…слезы потекли… — Interview with Parker, March 2, 1995.
«Нет, что вы!» — Interview with E. Proffer, May 15, 1996.
«…тетя Вера?» и «Очень плохо!» — Irina Korsunsky conversation, cited by Lazar Feygin to author, September 14, 1995.
«Могу я быть вам…» до «…умерла мгновенно!» — Interview with V. Crespi, May 20, 1998.
«Вера Набокова, 89» — The New York Times. 1991. April 11. Из прочих сообщений см.: The Nabokovian 26 (Spring 1991), i-x.
«монумент с фамилией „Набоков“» — Appel to DN, April 8, 1991, VNA. Это утверждение разделяли многие члены семьи. В своем письменном соболезновании к ВеН 28 августа 1977 г. (VNA) Нилли Сикорски писала: «Je suis convaincue que cette œuvre est vraiment votre oeuvre commune à tous les deux». (Я убеждена, что этот труд по существу является вашим обоюдным трудом — фр.)
«движения звезд…» — VN to Jannelli, July 14, 1938, Lilly.
черная кошка — Interviews with DN, February 26,1995, Morris Kahn, July 6, 1998.
«Распутывание загадки…» — Последняя неопубликованная глава SM, LOC. Набоков работал над нею примерно два месяца, бесчисленное количество раз редактируя текст. Под конец он счел, что фантастичность замысла этой главы противоречит остальному тексту мемуаров. VN to Katharine White, August 2, 1950, ВМС.
Библиографический указатель
Полная библиография произведений Набокова и о Набокове — см.: Michael Juliar’s Vladimir Nabokov: A Descriptive Bibliography (New York: Garland, 1986), регулярно обновляется в сборнике The Nabokovian.
Alexandrov, Vladimir E., ed. The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov. New York: Garland, 1995.
Amis, Martin. Visiting Mrs. Nabokov. New York: Harmony Books, 1993.
Appel, Alfred, Jr., ed. The Annotated Lolita. New York: Vintage, 1991.
Appel, Alfred, Jr., and Charles Newman, eds. Triquarterly 17 (1970). Reprinted as Nabokov: Criticism, Reminiscences, Translations and Tributes. Evanston, III.: Northwestern University Press, 1970.
Appel, Alfred. Nabokov's Dark Cinema. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
— «Nabokov’s Puppet Show». The New Republic. January 14 and 21, 1967.
L’Arc 24 (Spring 1964). Special Nabokov issue. Aix-en-Provence.
Barabtarlo, Gennady. Aerial View: Essays on Nabokov’s Art and Metaphysics. New York: Peter Lang, 1993.
Billington, James H. The Icon and the Axe. New York: Vintage, 1970.
Blake, Patricia. Introduction to Writers in Russia 1917–78, by Max Hayward. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.
Boyd, Brian. Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
— Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Brenner, Conrad. «Nabokov: The Art of the Perverse». The New Republic. June 23, 1958, 18–21.
Buhks, Nora, ed. Vladimir Nabokov et l'émigration. Cahiers de l’emigration russe, 2. Paris: L’Institut d’études slaves, 1993.
Davis, Linda H. Onward and Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
Desanti, Dominique. Vladimir Nabokov: essais et rêves. Paris: Julliard, 1994.
Diment, Galya. Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.
Ehrenburg, Ilya. Memoirs 1921–1941. Translated by Tatiana Shebunina. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1964.
— People and Life, 1891–1921. Translated by Anna Bostock and Yvonne Knapp. New York: Knopf, 1962.
Europe 791 (March 1995). Special Nabokov issue. Paris.
Field, Andrew. Nabokov: His Life in Art. Boston: Little Brown, 1967.
— Nabokov: His Life in Part. New York: Viking, 1977.
— VN: The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov. New York: Crown, 1986.
Fraser, Kennedy. Ornament and Silence. New York: Knopf, 1996.
Gibian, George, and Stephen Jan Parker, eds. The Achievements of Vladimir Nabokov. Ithaca: Cornell Center for International Studies, 1984.
Girodias, Maurice. Une journée sur la terre. Vol. I, L'Arrivée. Paris: Editions de la Différence, 1990.
— Une journée sur la terre. Vol. II, Les Jardins d’eros. Paris: Editions de la Difference, 1990.
— ed. L’Affaire Lolita. Paris: Olympia Press, 1957.
Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Writing a Woman’s Life. New York: Ballantine, 1988.
Johnson, D. Barton. Worlds in Regression: Some Novels of Vladimir Nabokov. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1985.
Karlinsky, Simon, ed. The Nabokov-Wilson Letters. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
Karlinsky, Simon, and Alfred Appel, Jr., eds. The Bitter Air of Exile: Russian Writers in the West, 1922–1972. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
Levy, Alan. Vladimir Nabokov: The Velvet Butterfly. Sag Harbor, N.Y.: Permanent Press, 1984.
Maddox, Brenda. Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce. New York: Fawcett, 1989.
Mandelstam, Nadezhda. Hope Against Hope. New York: Atheneum, 1970.
Mandelstam, Osip. The Noise of Time. New York: Penguin, 1993.
McGuire, William. Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Nabokov, Dmitri. «Close Calls and Fulfilled Dreams: Selected Entries from a Private Journal». Antaeus, Autumn 1988, 299–323.
Nabokov, Dmitri, and Matthew J. Bruccoli, eds. Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940–1977. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
Nabokov, Vladimir. Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle. New York: Vintage, 1990.
— Bend Sinister. New York: Vintage, 1990.
— Conclusive Evidence. New York; Harper & Bros., 1951.
— The Defense. New York: Vintage, 1990.
— Despair. New York: Vintage, 1989.
— The Enchanter. New York: Vintage, 1991.
— The Eye. New York: Vintage, 1990.
— The Gift. New York: Vintage, 1991.
— Glory. New York: Vintage, 1991.
— Invitation to a Beheading. New York: Vintage, 1989.
— King, Queen, Knave. New York: Vintage, 1989.
— Laughter in the Dark. New York: Vintage, 1989.
— Lectures on Don Quixote. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.
— Lectures on Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.
— Lectures on Russian Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
— Lolita. New York: Vintage, 1987.
— Lolita: A Screenplay. New York: Vintage, 1997.
— Look at the Harlequins! New York: Vintage, 1990.
— The Man from the U.S.S.R. & Other Plays. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.
— Mary. New York: Vintage, 1989.
— Nikolai Gogol. New York: New Directions, 1961.
— Pale Fire. New York: Vintage, 1989.
— Pnin. New York: Vintage, 1989.
— Poems and Problems. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.
— The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. New York: Vintage, 1992.
— Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited. New York: Vintage, 1989.
— Стихи. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1979.
— The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov. New York: Knopf, 1995.
— Strong Opinions. New York: Vintage, 1990.
— Transparent Things. New York: Vintage, 1989.
— The Waltz Invention. New York: Phaedra, 1966.
— trans. The Song of Igor’s Campaign: An Epic of the Twelfth Century. New York: Vintage, 1960.
— trans. Three Russian Poets. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1944.
Naumann, Marina Turkevich. Blue Evenings in Berlin: Nabokov’s Short Stories of the 1920s. New York: New York University Press, 1978.
Nicolson, Nigel. Portrait of a Marriage. New York: Atheneum, 1973.
Parker, Stephen Jan, ed. The Nabokovian. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1984.
Perry, Ruth, and Martine Watson Brownley, eds. Mothering the Mind. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1984.
Pipes, Richard. Russia under the Bolshevik Regime. New York: Knopf, 1993.
— Russia under the Old Regime. New York: Penguin, 1995.
— The Russian Revolution. New York: Vintage, 1990.
Proffer, Ellendea, ed. Vladimir Nabokov: A Pictorial Biography. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1991.
Proffer, Carl R. The Widows of Russia. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1992.
Pushkin, Alexander. Eugene Onegin. Translation and commentary by Vladimir Nabokov. 4 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.
Quennell, Peter, ed. Vladimir Nabokov. His Life, His Work, His World: A Tribute. New York: William Morrow, 1980.
Rivers, J. E., and Charles Nicol, eds. Nabokov’s Fifth Arc: Nabokov and Others on His Life’s Work. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. New York: Knopf, 1983.
Rowe, W. W. Nabokov's Spectral Dimension. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1981.
Russian Literary Triquarterly 24. Special Nabokov issue. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1991.
St. Jorre, John de. Venus Bound: The Erotic Voyage of the Olympia Press and Its Writers. New York: Random House, 1994.
Shakhovskoy, Zinaida.