American Literature after 1945

VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art, which creates its own
special reality.
-born 1899 in St Petersburg in Russia, died in 1977 in Switzerland
- his first novel Mashenka 1926 written in Russia
The Gift 1937 in Russian
Invitation to a Beheading 1938 in Russian
The good reader is the one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic
sense which sense I propose to develop in myself and in others whenever I have the
chance.
Novels in English: The Real Life of Sebastian Knight 1941
Lolita 1955
Other novels: Puin 1957
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle 1969
Transparent Things 1972
Look at the Harlequins 1974
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from Lolita:

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain
bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their nature, which is not
human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose designate
as nymphets.