nabokov

I have yet to read anything by him, 

but I loved his butterflies, 

an obsession of his on a par with language.

Photograph of a young Nabokov with butterfly doodles by the man himself.

A drawn inscription in his final novel, Look at the Harlequins! To Véra, of course. [via Cornell]

[via the Nabokov Museum]

The author’s own copy of Lolita. [via the Nabokov Museum]

[via the Nabokov Museum]

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