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THE NABOKOVIAN

Editor: Stephen Jan Parker

The Nabokovian serves to report and stimulate Nabokov scholarship and to create a link between Nabokov scholars in the USA and abroad.

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News                                                                                                            3
by Stephen Jan Parker

Notes and Brief Commentaries                                           6by Priscilla Meyer

"An Early Allusion to Marvell and Genesis in                 6
'The Blazon'"

Christopher A. Link

'"Traditions of a Russian Family' in Nabokov's Ada"  13 Alexey Sklyarenko

"Several Comments on Invitation to a Beheading"    26 Gavriel Shapiro

'"A Likeable Little Creature': Kinbote's Cat and Fleur de Fyler"    29  Matthew Brillinger

'"Enchanters, Artists, Madmen.' The Influence of            36
Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha on Nabokov's
Lolita             by Miriam Gottfried


Annotations to Ada: 22. Part I Chapter 22 by Brian Boyd  47

2003 Nabokov Bibliography                                               77

by Stephen Jan Parker and Callie Barringer