Discarded limbs and unfinished torsos. The manuscript of “Rayskaia Ptitsa” and the first version of “Solus Rex” in the conception of “Lolita”

Abstract

The article focuses on two Vladimir Nabokov’s archival materials, the partially preserved manuscript of the Rayskaia Ptitsa (1931, the first version of Camera Obscura, 1933), and the excerpt from the typescript of Solus Rex (193ж1955).

Keywords

• vladimir nabokov
• archival materials
• unfinished works
• lolita
• camera obscura
• russian émigré literature