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“This Fairground Farce of Light”: Vladimir Nabokov’s “The Cinema” (1928)
Luke Parker presents his translation of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 poem “The Cinema.”
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian-American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and translator. One of the great literary stylists of the 20th-century, in both Russian and English, he is best known for his novels, which include Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, The Gift, and Pnin.
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“This Fairground Farce of Light”: Vladimir Nabokov’s “The Cinema” (1928)
Luke Parker presents his translation of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 poem “The Cinema.”