Nabokovian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Nabokovian
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Mr. Lanchester is a magnetic writer who combines the skills of a social realist with this penchant for Nabokovian black humor and narrative trickery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Hart’s book has all the makings of a campus novel that could veer off into Nabokovian or even Verhoevian territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2022
Occasionally, too, sentences attain a fleeting, Nabokovian beauty: “We rounded a bend in the road and a cloud of pale blue butterflies appeared before us, blown in perhaps from another part of the world.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021
This doesn’t look like poetic license, ordinary cockiness, or Nabokovian game-playing; nor is it behavior associated with bipolar II disorder.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
Ms. Ross takes a cultivated and nearly Nabokovian joy in the English language.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2015
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