Vladimir Nabokov’s Bilingual Poetry: The Mirror of Self-Translation

The book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Nabokov’s self-translated poetry, examining texts from his novels The Gift and Lolita, stories, and collections to explore how bilingualism, memory, and poetic form intersect in a unique interlingual space central to his literary practice.

Maria Emeliyanova is a researcher at the University of Padua (Italy). She obtained her Ph.D in Modern languages in 2021 at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy) and, as part of a joint degree program, a Ph.D. in English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). She is associate editor of Partial Answers: a Journal of History of Ideas. Her interests focus on the study of the work of transnational literatures, investigating the phenomenon of self-translation as a hybrid form of inner translation and creative literary expression.