Inventing and naming America:  Place and Place Names in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

In the afterword to Lolita, Nabokov claimed that in this book he had to invent both Lolita and America after having invented Europe in his previous fiction. This paper focuses precisely on the various ways in which Nabokov “invented” America in his best-known novel. This invention is first of all th...

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Main Author: Monica Manolescu-Oancea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/7550