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

Vladimir Nabokov noted that overlaid on top of the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse was a separate pattern of accents resulting from the natural pitch of the spoken words, and suggested that the term " scud " be used to distinguish an unaccented stress from an accented stress.

As one longtime reader wrote to Yagoda, this was a place ' where Peter DeVries ... was forever lifting a glass of Piesporter, where Niccolò Tucci ( in a plum velvet dinner jacket ) flirted in Italian with Muriel Spark, where Nabokov sipped tawny port from a prismatic goblet ( while a Red Admirable perched on his pinky ), and where John Updike tripped over the master's Swiss shoes, excusing himself charmingly ".

Originally the camp was named after the hill Ettersberg but it was later renamed to Buchenwald ( German for beech forest ).< ref > As Vladimir Nabokov in Pnin ( New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 ) puts it, " in the beautifully wooded Grosser Ettersburg, as the region is resoundingly called.

The screenplay was based on the novel The Defense ( or The Luzhin Defence ) by Vladimir Nabokov.

In a 1985 interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated If on a winter's night a traveller was " clearly " influenced by the writings of Vladimir Nabokov.

An opera of the same title was composed by Nicolas Nabokov, with a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.

Containing work by a myriad of authors, which included J. P. Donleavy, Edward Albee, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Vladimir Nabokov, Bruce Jay Friedman, himself, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine, this was one of the first American anthologies devoted to the conception of black humor as a literary genre ; the publication also sparked nation wide interest in black humor.

( Nabokov himself was an accomplished lepidopterist.

While still a student, he befriended A. J. Ayer ( with whom he was to share a lifelong amicable rivalry ), Stuart Hampshire, Richard Wollheim, Maurice Bowra, Stephen Spender, J. L. Austin and Nicolas Nabokov.

Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov ( Russian: Владимир Дмитриевич Набоков ) ( 21 July 1870 – 28 March 1922 ) was a Russian criminologist, journalist, and progressive statesman during the last years of the Russian Empire.

He was the father of Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov.

Nabokov was born in Tsarskoe Selo, into a wealthy and aristocratic family.

His father Dmitry Nabokov ( 1827 – 1904 ) was a Justice Minister in the reign of Alexander II from 1878 to 1885, and his mother Maria von Korff ( 1842 – 1926 ) was a Baroness from a prominent Baltic German family in Courland.

Their eldest son was the writer and lepidopterist Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, who portrayed his father in his memoirs ( Speak, Memory, 1967 ); V. V. Nabokov included in his novel Pale Fire a scene of misdirected assassination evoking the death of his father.

A prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic Party ( CD, the " Kadets "), Nabokov was elected to Russia's parliament, the First Duma.

Nabokov was made secretary to the Provisional Government ; however, he was forced to leave St. Petersburg in December 1917 after the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolshevik revolution.

From 1920 until his death, Nabokov was the editor of the Russian émigré newspaper Rul (" The Rudder "), which continued to advocate a pro-Western democratic government in Russia.

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

" The Vane Sisters " is the penultimate short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in March 1951.

The Gift is the last novel written by Nabokov in his native language.

* 39 poems originally written in Russian and translated by Nabokov

However, in the author's notes, Nabokov states that, " Intelligent readers will abstain from examining this impersonal fantasy for any links with my later fiction ," and that the poem was written "... to amuse a friend.

The essay, supposedly written by a Swiss scholar named Michel Desommelier, included concocted passages from Laura that fooled scholars and even Dmitri Nabokov.

No. Does it contain brilliant, funny, astonishing sentences only Nabokov could have written?

** On Translating Eugene Onegin A poem by Vladimir Nabokov written in Onegin Stanzas

Nine Stories is an English-language collection of stories written in Russian, French, and English by Vladimir Nabokov.

Carrousel is a booklet published in 1987 containing three short texts written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1923 for " Karussel ", a Russian cabaret.

Bend Sinister is a 1947 dystopian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov.

" Lolita was written by Vladimir Nabokov, and adapted for film once by Stanley Kubrick and again by Adrian Lyne.

Vladimir Nabokov should have written it.

Despair ( Отчаяние ( Otchayanie ) in Russian ) was written by Vladimir Nabokov and originally published as a serial in Sovremennye Zapiski during 1934.

* On 18 April 2010, in game 3 of the conference quarterfinals between the San Jose Sharks and the Colorado Avalanche, San Jose defenceman Dan Boyle attempted a pass from an improbable angle to San Jose goaltender Evgeni Nabokov, which was intended for Joe Thornton.

Nabokov, who was totally unprepared for a shot on goal, froze as the puck slid between his legs.

* May 4, 2008: Brenden Morrow scores on San Jose Sharks goalie Evgeni Nabokov at 9: 03 of the 4th overtime period in Game 6 of the Western Conference Semifinals series between the Sharks and Stars.

No trade occurred, and Ron Wilson opted to alternate starts between Toskala and Nabokov.

Nabokov wrote it between 1935 and 1937 while living in Berlin, and it was published in serial form under his nom de plume, Vladimir Sirin.

In 1998, a contract dispute between Dumont and the team led to the Islanders to trade him to the Chicago Blackhawks along with a 5th round pick in exchange for Dmitri Nabokov.

In 1917, after the February Revolution, Nabokov helped draft the document for Grand Duke Michael's refusal of the throne.

2005 – 06 proved to be a career year for Toskala ; he began as the backup to Nabokov, but after a start on February 8 he posted a record of 17-2-2 leading to a Stanley Cup playoff berth for the Sharks.

On November 8, 2007, Mike Modano became the top American born point scorer of all time finishing off a shorthanded breakaway opportunity on San Jose Sharks goalie Evgeni Nabokov.

During this time, he produced what Nabokov describes as an " incredible number of masterpieces " and finished copying out Chapter 8 on September 25, 1830.