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Book SynopsisThe Goalkeeper is a new scholarly almanac devoted to the art of Vladimir Nabokov. Himself an ardent goalkeeper, the author of
Lolita viewed soccer as more than a game: “I was less the keeper of a soccer goal than the keeper of a secret” (Speak, Memory). The inaugural collection features contributions from two dozen leading Nabokov scholars worldwide, including academic articles (Neil Cornwell, Gerard de Vries, Samuel Schuman, and others); roundtable discussions (Brian Boyd, Jeff Edmunds, Priscilla Meyer, David Rampton, Leona Toker); interviews (Dmitri Nabokov, Alvin Toffler); archival materials; the Kyoto Nabokov conference report; and book reviews (Pekka Tammi, Zoran Kuzmanovich, Galya Diment).
The Nabokov Almanac, edited by Yuri Leving, is affiliated with the
Nabokov Online Journal, published since 2007.
Trade Review“A virtual cornucopia of Nabokoviana! With its impressive diversity of contributors and stylish format, Yuri Leving’s The Goalkeeper promises to be the place to look for the latest on one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers and most stimulating thinkers.”
— David Bethea, Vilas Professor of Slavic Languages, University of Wisconsin-Madison / University of OxfordTable of Contents
- Slide Tackle (from the editor)
- Team (about the contributors)
- Field: Forum
- Nabokov Studies: Strategic Development of the Field and Scholarly Cooperation
- First Time Ball: Russian Nabokov
- Orhan Pamuk and Vladimir Nabokov on Dostoevsky
- Sacrificing the Maiden('s) Head: Decoding Nabokov's Burlesque of Sex and Violence in Invitation to a Beheading
- Irony Behind the Iron Curtain: Internal Escape from Totalitarianism in Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading
- Nabokov's Invitation to Plato's Beheading
- Center Circle: Forum
- Institutionalizing Nabokov: Museum, Archive, Exhibition
- Narrowing the Angle: Memoir
- A Neophyte's Collision with Vladimir Vladimirovich
- Corner Arc: English Nabokov
- Nabokov's Pale Fire and Alexander Pope
- Picturing Memory, Puncturing Vision: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
- Two Notes on Pale Fire
- A Fold of the Marquisette: Nabokov's Lepidoptery in Visual Media
- Goal Box: Interview
- An Interview with Dmitiri Nabokov by Suellen Stringer-Hye, ""Laura is Not Even the Original's Name."" One Touch Pass: Nabokov across the Lines
- ""Which is Sebastian?"" What's in a (Shakespearean and Nabokovian) Name? Aesthetics and Sin: The Nymph and the Faun in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun and Nabokov's Lolita
- Nabokov and Prince D.S
- Mirsky
- Corner Flag: Interview
- An Interview with Alvin Toffler by Yuri Leving, ""Lost in Transit."" Midfield Line: Forum
- Teaching Nabokov
- Red Card: Archive
- ""The book is dazzlingly brilliant..
- But"": Two early internal reviews of Nabokov's The Gift
- Dangerous Play: Conference
- ""Revising Nabokov Revising"" Nabokov Conference in Kyoto
- Penalty Area: Book Reviews
- Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl all Over Again
- Approaches to Teaching Nabokov's Lolita
- Versus and Versions: Three Centuries of Russian Poetry, selected and translated by Vladimir Nabokov
- Vladimir Nabokov, Tragediia gospadinaMorna: P'esy, lektsii o drame
- Pekka Tammi, Russian Subtexts in Nabokov's Fiction: Four Essays
- End Line: Bibliography
- Index of Names.
