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Originally published
  
1969

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Author
  
Vladimir Nabokov

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Poems and Problems (ISBN 0-07-045724-7) is a book by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969. It consists of:

Contents

  • 39 poems originally written in Russian and translated by Nabokov
  • 14 poems written in English
  • 18 chess problems

    • One of the 39 poems originally written in Russian, "Lilith", in 1928, can be looked at as a foreshadowing of Lolita. However, in the author's notes, Nabokov states that, "Intelligent readers will abstain from examining this impersonal fantasy for any links with my later fiction," and that the poem was written "...to amuse a friend."

    Table of content

  • THIRTY-NINE RUSSIAN POEMS
  • FOURTEEN ENGLISH POEMS

    • Quote

  • "Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity."

    • References

    Poems and Problems Wikipedia
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