The following op-ed article in todays Times proposes that
the solitary genius myth has outlived its usefulness (if it ever had
any), implicitly crediting Véra Nabokov with a goodly portion of her
husband's productivity and/or creativity. The essay concludes with
a discussion of the importance of pairs in the creative
venture. I argued, in Zina's Paradox, that Nabokov was onto
something similar in The Gift. Yet publicly, especially (I
think) in the lectures on theater, Nabokov appears to disparage the
idea of collaboration. Can any in our community think of other
positive portrayals of non-solitary creativity in Nabokov, explicit
or implicit?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-genius.html?ref=opinion
Stephen Blackwell