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Transparent Things. New York, 1972

This novella, a National Book Award nominee, was published separately after first appearing in the December 1971 issue of Esquire. Reviewers scarcely knew what to make of this deceptively slim chaser to Ada, which had taken Nabokov over two years, off and on, to complete. With a complex network of disembodied narrators, it was inspired in part by Nabokov's stays in thin-walled hotel rooms that allowed him access to the unseen worlds of his neighbors. Finished on April Fool's Day, 1971, it was not issued in book form until the end of the following year. On publication day, he wrote in his diary that reviews "oscillat[ed] between hopeless adoration and helpless hatred. Very amusing." One such review called it "an unlovely and unlovable book that begins to touch the reader only the second time around. It is a masterpiece, of course." In an interview that was ultimately published only in Strong Opinions (1973), Nabokov stated: "Amongst the reviewers several careful readers have published some beautiful stuff about it. Yet neither they nor, of course, the common criticule discerned the structural knot of the story." He assisted by sketching its theme, "a beyond-the-cypress inquiry into a tangle of random destinies." Brian Boyd's analysis attempts to untie that "knot" with a more specific elucidation: "Within the small compass of Transparent Things and the bleak life of Hugh Person, Nabokov ruptures the relationship of reader, character, and author more radically than he has ever done, in order to explore some of his oldest themes: the nature of time; the mystery and privacy of the human soul, and its simultaneous need to breach its solitude; the scope of consciousness beyond death; the possibility of design in the universe."

The items listed below pertain to Nabokov's life and career and are the contents of the exhibition at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, on view from April 23 through August 21, 1999. This checklist, primarily of items from the Library's Nabokov Archive, is included here to provide a sense of the rich holdings in this special collection.

Vladimir Nabokov
"Transparent Things"
Holograph manuscript on 348 index cards, 1970-71
Berg Collection

Vladimir Nabokov
"Transparent Things"
Typescript, with Nabokov's holograph corrections, and notes from the editors, signed and dated April 1, 1972
Berg Collection

Vladimir Nabokov
Transparent Things
New York: McGraw-Hill, [1972]
Berg Collection

Vladimir Nabokov's pencils, ca. 1970s
Lent by Dmitri Nabokov

         

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