Julia Trubikhina received her PhD in Comparative Literature with a specialization in Slavic studies from New York University. She teaches in the Department of Classics and Oriental Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. In addition to articles and reviews in academic journals (most recently, "A Discrete Amalgam: New York Poets from the Former Soviet Union" in Canadian-American Slavic Studies), Julia Trubikhina (as Julia Trubikhina-Kunina) also published translations and contributed original poetry to Russian, European, and American anthologies and literary journals. She is currently working on two translation projects: a bilingual edition of poetry by Vladimir Aristov for Ugly Duckling Presse and a volume of poetry and prose by Elena Shvarts.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Nabokov's Beginnings: "Ania" in Wonderland or "Does Asparagus Grow in a Pile of Manure?"

Chapter 2: The Novel on Translation and "über-Translation": Nabokov's Pale Fire and Eugene Onegin

Chapter 3: "Cinemizing" as Translation: Nabokov's Screenplay of Lolita and Stanley Kubrick's and Adrian Lyne's Cinematic Versions

Conclusion: Vladimir Nabokov within the Russian and Western Traditions of Translation

Selected Bibliography

Index