Talk:The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Yes of course the valise, thank you for reminding me.

And Victor's work is not motivated by Mr. Goodman's. He only discovers Mr. Goodman's "Biography" while visiting Cambridgeshire.

V for Victor
Nabokov was, by the end of his relationship with Andrew Field, pretty resistant to the younger man's efforts to write about him. Mightn't the "V stands for Victor" have been a flippant dismissal of any personal connection to the initial? Dybryd 00:27, 1 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, Field's biographies of Nabokov are not well-regarded anymore, and I hate to see them cited here, compared to, say, the work of Brian Boyd. I considered removing the V is for Victor reference, but haven't fully decided to do so yet. -- PKtm 00:52, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Granted, yet none the less Boyd himself deemed it credible enough to include it in his notes to the Library of America edition of Nabokov.

Spoiler
I deleted the spoiler warning -- it was in the plot section and, frankly, there's nothing there that spoils anything for anyone. I'm for spoiler warnings when they're warranted, but not here. Accounting4Taste 21:32, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:18, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

His Newborn Son
Dmitri Nabokov was born in Berlin in 1934. Vladimir Nabokov cannot, therefore, have "retreated into the washroom to write, so as not to disturb his wife and newborn son" in Paris in 1938. How can this contradiction be resolved? 86.212.43.61 (talk) 23:14, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Remove the suggestion until it can be substantiated.--Mr. Stein (talk) 19:19, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Plot Summary
The plot summary was brief and poorly worded, so I reworked it almost entirely. --Mr. Stein (talk) 19:18, 22 July 2011 (UTC)