A most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Topic

Infidelity

Speaker

Vladimir Nabokov

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Russia Europe

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Original Citation

Nabokov, Vladimir. Talking about the novel Madame Bovary. c. 1948, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Lecture.

Current Citation

Nabokov, Vladimir. "Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary." Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers. Mariner Books, 2002.

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