Nabokov ou le sourire du chat (review)

The book’s scholarly apparatus is excellent. The editor provides over 80 pages of background, commentary, and bibliographic data on the poems. All of the poems and translations are numbered and alphabetically indexed, making them quite easy to locate in the editorial notes and commentaries. The volume includes 15 photographs, including holographs of Nabokov manuscripts. With this pioneering volume Malikova has laid the much needed groundwork for all future study of Nabokov as Russian poet.