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Robert Alter on Nabokov’s Literary Invention March 17, 2021 Vladimir Nabokov remains one of the most polarizing of the major novelists who have written in English. His admirers are passionate about him. These include both critics and many novelists in England, America, and elsewhere. Some gestures of imitation have been made by other writers, though as is generally the case with writers of the first order of originality—Proust and Kafka come to mind—these efforts have not been very successful. On the opposing side, there are some readers who cannot abide Nabokov, finding little in his w...

The date on which this piece is intended for first posting on this website, March 4th, is the date on which- for 140 years, from George Washington's Second Inauguration in 1793 through Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First in 1933- Presidents of the United States, every four years until the 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution first took effect (36 times in all)- took the Oath of Office prescribed in Article II, Section 1, clause 8 of Our Nation's fundamental legal document. The use of this date was not based on any specific constitutional language but was, rather, an accident of His...