http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/vladimir-nabokov Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 17 May 2026 08:32:08 -0400 Sun, 17 May 2026 08:32:08 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1750/the-versipel-charles-kinbote-in-vladimir-nabokovs-pale-fire By Brenda S. Tolian - Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov is a masterpiece of literature that seems to transform into a remarkably personal experience for anyone who approaches the text. The book reads in many ways like a game full of mysteries and innuendos and has in its postmodern approach no discernible rules. One can begin as usual, or dive into the index or immerse themselves in the cantos first. Our expectations of what text should do and how someone should act can become shattered by this book that refuses to behave. Almost at once one has this queer feeling that they are a witness to the manipulations of Charles... Wed, 09 Jan 2019 09:24 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1750/the-versipel-charles-kinbote-in-vladimir-nabokovs-pale-fire http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1725/the-birth-of-the-creative-consciousness-childhood-spaces-memory-and-psychoanalytic-play-in-the-memoirs-of-vladimir-nabokov-and-virginia-woolf By Salman R. Patwary - I argue that the impression of this opening of consciousness for both Nabokov and Woolf, the moment that they realized they were sentient, alive, temporal beings in reality, represented a new birth, into a new creative cosmos, a birth into the realities that are available to everyone, but also others that are more hidden and subtle – the realities of the artist. Essentially, my argument is for this opening to happen to them in childhood left a deep impression, a branding and etching that allowed them to evolve into the artists that they became. Lastly, I argue that this opening of consciousness... Mon, 22 Jan 2018 08:51 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1725/the-birth-of-the-creative-consciousness-childhood-spaces-memory-and-psychoanalytic-play-in-the-memoirs-of-vladimir-nabokov-and-virginia-woolf http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/529/gender-and-power-in-vladimir-nabokovs-lolita By Tristan Gans - In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, the overriding force of the narrator, Humbert Humbert, is his need to prove himself master of everything: other people, his own desires, fate, and language itself. Time and time again through Lolita we see Humbert’s most extreme actions and emotions not as a result of his physical desires but rather his psychological need to win, to possess, and to control. Gender relations are quite simple for him: women are to be possessed, and men should compete for the possession of women. At times Humbert competes to prove his superiority in other ways, for instance tricking... Wed, 18 May 2011 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/529/gender-and-power-in-vladimir-nabokovs-lolita http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/374/the-1905-russian-revolution-through-the-eyes-of-vladimir-nabokov-in-speak-memory By Iulia O. Basu-Zharku - Many of the causes that determined the 1905 Russian Revolution are presented in Nabokov’s novel. One of these is industrialization, which occurred at a rapid pace: “In the early years of this century, a travel agency on Nevski Avenue displayed a three-foot-long model of an oak-brown international sleeping car.... One could make out the blue upholstery inside, the embossed leather lining of the compartment walls, their polished panels, inset mirrors, tulip-shaped reading lamps, and other maddening details. Spacious windows alternated with narrower ones... and some of these were of frosted... Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:01 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/374/the-1905-russian-revolution-through-the-eyes-of-vladimir-nabokov-in-speak-memory