Discarded limbs and unfinished torsos. The manuscript of “Rayskaia Ptitsa” and the first version of “Solus Rex” in the conception of “Lolita”

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https://www.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2017-6-8-29
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2017 №6
Author: Andrei A. Babikov
About the author:
Andrei A. Babikov, independent researcher. Moscow, Russia.

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Abstract:
The article focuses on two Vladimir Nabokov’s archival materials, the partially preserved manuscript of the Rayskaia Ptitsa (1931, the first version of Camera Obscura, 1933), and the excerpt from the typescript of Solus Rex (193ж1955).
Keywords: Vladimir Nabokov, archival materials, unfinished works, Lolita, Camera Obscura, Russian émigré literature.
References:
Boyd B. Vladimir Nabokov. Russkie gody. Biografiia [Vladimir Nabokov. The Russian years. A Biography]. Saint Petersburg, Simpozium Publ., 2010. 720 p. (In Russ.)

Nabokov V. Pis’ma k Vere [Letters to Vera], predisl. B. Boyda, komment. B. Boyda i O. Voroninoi. Moscow, Kolibri Publ., 2017. 704 p. (In Russ.)

Nabokov V. Polnoe sobranie rasskazov [Collected Stories], sost., primech. A. Babikova. Izd. 3-e, utochn. Saint Petersburg, Azbuka Publ., 2016. 752 p. (In Russ.)

Nabokov V. Sobranie sochinenii russkogo perioda: V 5 t. [Collected works of the Russian period, in 5 vol.], sost. N.I. Artemenko-Tolstoi. Saint Petersburg, Simpozium Publ., 2000. T. 3. 784 p. (In Russ.)

Nabokov V. Strong Opinions. N.Y., Vintage Books, 1990. 360 p.

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