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As intricate as a residence of mirrors, Nabokov's last novel can be an ironic play on the Janus-like romance between fiction and truth. It's the autobiography of the eminent Russian-American creator Vadim Vadimovich N. (b. 1899), whose life bears an uncanny resemblance compared to that of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, though the two aren't to be confused (?). Concentrating on the central results of his life - his four wives, his catalogs, and his muse, Dementia - the publication leads us to suspect that the fictions Vadim has created as an creator have crossed the line between his life's work and his life itself, as the worlds of truth and literary technology grow increasingly indistinguishable. One of the 20th century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He examined French and Russian books at Trinity University, Cambridge, then resided in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary job. In 1940 he moved to america and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught books at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.
