Vladimir nabokov: life & words

This book is an anthology of 96 quotes from Vladimir Nabokov and 61 selected facts about Vladimir Nabokov. While attending Cambridge, Nabokov romanced many women, and became popular with the men as a solid soccer goalkeeper. Nabokov's grandfather was a Justice Minister to the Czar Alexander II. Nabokov's son, Dimitri Nabokov, was an opera singer at the La Scala. Nabokov never used telephones. Nabokov ridicules, dismisses and parodies Freudianism throughout his writing. Nabokov was an enthusiastic and skilled player in chess, tennis and soccer. ?I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, I speak like a child.? ?Beauty plus pity - that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.? ?Caress the detail, the divine detail.? ?Genius is an African who dreams up snow.? ?Solitude is the playfield of Satan.? ?The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece.