In Pursuit of "the Nabocuff": Editorial Interventions and Involution in the Non-fiction of Vladimir Nabokov

这个项目将把纳博科夫的非小说类作品从他全部作品的边缘拯救出来，并推翻只有他的小说才值得我们关注的普遍假设。这个跨学科的项目将嵌入纳博科夫跨国档案的近距离阅读中，将作者的编辑干预和拒绝与内卷化、自传和自传/传记问题“脱离纳博科夫”。从强烈的意见（1973年）和思考，写作，说话（2019年）开始，这项研究将抵制对纳博科夫小说的关注，并为优先考虑本世纪中叶美国作家的非小说提供一个模型。

This project will rescue Nabokov's non-fiction from the margins of his oeuvre and overturn the prevailing assumption that only his fiction is worthy of our attention. Embedded within a close reading of Nabokov's transnational archives, this interdisciplinary project will pair the author's editorial interventions and refusal to speak "off the Nabocuff" with questions of involution, autofiction, and auto/biography. Starting with Strong Opinions (1973) and Think, Write, Speak(2019), this research will resist the attention paid canonically to Nabokov's fiction and offer a model for prioritising the non-fiction of mid-century American writers.