* 1958 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.

* The character of Ada and her home Ardis Hall in the Ilium cycle are inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada or Ardor, which was Nabokov's foray into the science fiction genre and alternate history.

Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire is a particularly elaborate variation.

An example of this is Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poem largely written in loose heroic couplets but also allowing for frequent enjambment.

* Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift

* September 15 – Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in Paris by Olympia Press.

* Nabokov's Dozen ( 1958 ), a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov previously published in American magazines

* Nabokov's Congeries, a collection of work by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov published in 1968 and reprinted in 1971 as The Portable Nabokov

* ( 1955 ) In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Humbert Humbert's childhood sweetheart, Annabel Leigh, dies of typhus.

* Two song settings of Vladimir Nabokov's poem " Provence " in Russian and English versions by composers Ivan Barbotin and James DeMars on the 2011 contemporary classical album Troika.

* Van Veen, the main character of Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor

* Ada in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada has dreams as a young girl of being a lepidopterist on the fictional planet ' anti-terra '.

* In Vladimir Nabokov's short story, Signs and Symbols, initially published in 1948, the parents of a suicidal youth suffering from a variation of this disease, " Referential Mania ", decide to remove him from a hospital in order to keep a more watchful eye.

Aeolian harps are mentioned in Vladimir Nabokov's classic Lolita.

* Dar, Russian title of Vladimir Nabokov's book The Gift

Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel, Lolita, utilizes deus ex machina to drive its plot forward: In Chapter 21 of the novel, Charlotte Haze, Humbert Humbert's recent wife and the mother of Dolores " Lolita " Haze, is killed by a moving car in the street.

* Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift has the protagonist, Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, study Chernyshevsky and write the critical biography The Life of Chernychevski which represents Chapter Four of the novel.

Vineland may be a play on the word " Hollywood ", a reference to the first Viking settlement in North America, Vinland, or a reference to Andrey Vinelander, a character in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.

* In Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, the main plot is told through the annotative endnotes of a fictional editor.

However, critical response to Imitations was mixed and sometimes hostile ( as was the case with Vladimir Nabokov's public response to Lowell's Mandelstam translations ).

The Bobolink is also one of the many important ornithological references in Vladimir Nabokov's John Shade's poem " Pale Fire " in the novel of the same name:

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is often described as an erotic novel, but other critics view it more as a literary drama with elements of eroticism.

The phrase is a reference to Vladimir Nabokov's book Lolita, in which a middle-aged man becomes sexually obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl.

* 1953 – Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.

The term was made famous in the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

The 1948 Mann Act prosecution of Frank LaSalle for abducting Florence Sally Horner is believed to have been an inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov in writing his novel Lolita, whose protagonist Humbert Humbert seeks to escape watchful eyes and bind 13-year-old Dolores Haze more closely to him by taking the girl on a multistate road trip.

Asimov used this obscure variation to insert himself into The Caves of Steel just like he referred to himself as " Azimuth or, possibly, Asymptote " in Thiotimoline to the Stars, in much the same way that Vladimir Nabokov appeared in Lolita anagrammatically disguised as " Vivian Darkbloom ".

In the Vladimir Nabokov novel Ada, or Ardor, in a letter to Marina after his duel with Baron D ' Onsky, Demon Veen tells her that he had gone to his aunt's ranch near Lolita, Texas.

Most commonly, they are simply taken from a word used in the narrative of a book ; a few representative examples are: " grok " ( to achieve complete intuitive understanding ), from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein ; " McJob ", from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland ; " cyberspace ", from Neuromancer by William Gibson ; " nymphet " from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

* Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is published in Paris ; however, it takes until 1958 to be published in the United States.

Immigrant authors such as Vladimir Nabokov, with Lolita, forged on with the theme, and, at almost the same time, the beatniks took a concerted step away from their Lost Generation predecessors, developing a style and tone of their own by drawing on Eastern theology and experimenting with recreational drugs.

At the apex of the technique stands Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

" Annabel Lee " was an inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov, especially for his novel Lolita ( 1955 ), in which the narrator, as a child, falls in love with the terminally ill Annabel Leigh " in a princedom by the sea ".

* James Mason for Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

Examples include Nelly Dean in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, " Chief " Bromden in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, Holden Caulfield in the novel The Catcher In The Rye, Dr. James Sheppard in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, Stark in Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith, and Humbert Humbert in the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

# Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Through the Esquire job, he interviewed rising filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, who had just completed his controversial screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita.

While it may have been just within bounds in the United States, in 1963 it was still one of 188 books prohibited from import into Australia, along with Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Grace Metalious's Peyton Place, and no fewer than seven books by Henry Miller.

" — Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

Grammer supplied the voices for " Stinky Pete the Prospector " in 1999 Disney / Pixar film Toy Story 2, Vladimir in the Fox animated movie Anastasia, Rothbart in Barbie of Swan Lake, Zozi the Bear in the subsequently produced prequel Bartok the Magnificent, and the title character in the short-lived animated series Gary the Rat.

According to information from the US Embassy in Brussels ( published by Wikileaks in November 2010 ): Patten said in April 2004 that Russian President Vladimir Putin has done a good job for Russia mainly due to high world energy prices, but he had serious doubts about the man ’ s character.

His life and death were the basis for that of the main character in the novel The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov, which was made into the movie The Luzhin Defence.

Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to Ginzburg's family, saying " We bid farewell to an extraordinary personality whose outstanding talent, exceptional strength of character and firmness of convictions evoked true respect from his colleagues ".

* In Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin, the title character asks for Martin Eden in a bookstore, describing it as " a celebrated work by the celebrated American writer Jack London ", but nobody has heard of it, and they only have a copy of The Son of the Wolf.

Vladimir Vysotsky wrote songs about war simply because they provided that extreme setting in which honour and emotional strength are needed, and a man's true character can be seen.

John Shade is a fictional character in Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire.

* Vladimir ( Waiting for Godot ), also known as Vladimir " Albert " and " Didi ", a character in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

* Vovochka, diminutive form of Vladimir, common character in Russian jokes

The character of Prince Vladimir refers to a generalized “ epic Vladimir ” rather than an allusion to a specific historical Vladimir.

In Tom Stoppard's Godot pastiche, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, the character Guildenstern closely resembles Vladimir.

* Ilya Stepanovich Igolkin, a character in Vladimir Obruchev's Plutonia

Literary critic Vladimir Propp in his book, Morphology of the Folktale uses the term dramatis personæ when referring to the character roles of fairy tales, from his analysis of the Russian tales of Alexander Afanasiev.

Pozzo is often compared to Estragon ( just as Lucky is compared to Vladimir ) as being the impulsive, right-brained part of his character duo.

Lucky is often compared to Vladimir ( just as Pozzo is compared to Estragon ) as being the intellectual, left-brained part of his character duo ( i. e. he represents one part of a larger, whole character, whose other half is represented by Pozzo ).

Vladimir Peter " Bill " Tytla ( October 25, 1904 – December 30, 1968 ) was one of the original Disney animators and is considered by many to be the best character animator to work during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation.