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19 septembre 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.pus.5291
- isbn: 9782868209832
- eisbn: 9791034404780
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Brian Boyd, « Preface. The Haunted Enchanter », Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, ID : 10.4000/books.pus.5291
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France — the land, its language, and its literature — haunted Nabokov’s life, his memory and imagination. His first encounters with the country, all the same, seem less than radiant. His parents took him, aged two, and Sergey, fifteen months, to Biarritz in the summer of 1901. When V. D. Nabokov had to return to St Petersburg to teach at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence, his wife took the boys to her brother Vasily’s château, Perpignàa (Jurançon). All Nabokov later recalled of the trip wa...