Literature Program Presents

Literature Salon: Reading Archivally – Alphabetic Codes and Verbal Puzzles in Nabokov's 1951 Diary

Our second Literature Salon of the semester coincides with the 125th anniversary of Vladimir Nabokov’s birth. To mark the occasion, Associate Professor of Russian Olga Voronina will share her archival research into Nabokov’s works from the early 1950’s. She invites us to consider Nabokov's notoriously difficult "ghost" story, “The Vane Sisters." Some of the keys to this text are hidden in the writer's diary from 1951, a manuscript version of which we will study together. In anticipation of this event, participants are encouraged (though not required) to read “The Vane Sisters” so that we might collectively scrutinize it through the archival lens. A PDF copy of “The Vane Sisters” is available at this link. For more information about the event, please contact Adhaar Desai ([email protected]).



 

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Olin Humanities, Room 205

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