Anna Aslanyan

Hurricane Lolita

Among Robert Roper’s many surprising and original ideas in his account of Nabokov in America is that the novelist’s son Dmitri may have been the inspiration for Lolita

  • Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita

    Robert Roper

    Blooomsbury, pp. 354

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