Table of Contents

Contents: Nailya Garipova: Introduction: the gallery of Nabokov’s women – Elena Ukhova: «An ideal spouse for a writer»: the reality and myths in Véra Nabokov’s life – Alexandra Popoff: Véra’s role in Nabokov’s life and prose – Frances Peltz Assa: Remorse and Nabokov’s women – Priscilla Meyer: Carmencita: Valentina Shulgina. The evolution of Eros in Nabokov’s work – Nora Scholz: «Or of the air itself»: Nabokov’s «mothers» as bearers of spiritual understanding – Julian W. Connolly: Fetching yet faithless: problematic mistresses in Nabokov’s fiction – Alexia Gassin: The Nabokovian society woman: a Kirchner’s cocotte? – Sabina Metzger: «A weird place»: Nabokov and the topography of the foreign governess – Akiko Nakata: Narrating her own absence: the narrator and protagonist of A Slice of Life – Svetlana Stefanova Radoulska: Making sense of death: inaccessible women in Nabokov’s short stories – Ljuba Tarvi: An invisible harlequin in Nabokov’s last novel: «You» in the protagonist’s world and afterworld – Juan Ignacio Guijarro González: «Fires of my loins»: female characters in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin.