Very Nasty
John Sutherland, 21 May 1987
VN: The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov
by Andrew Field.
Macdonald, 417 pp., £14.95, April 1987,0 356 14234 5 Show More
by Andrew Field.
Macdonald, 417 pp., £14.95, April 1987,
“... and Pale Fire’s Kinbote. It is clear that by giving consent to Field, Nabokov intended to do a Thomas Hardy: that is, write his life through a docile secretary. Indeed, he told Field as much: ‘I wanted to see the thing. The first biography, no matter what comes after, casts a certain shadow on the others.’ As events proved, Nabokov misjudged his ... ”