Vladimir Nabokov, Alphabet in Color by Brian Boyd, Jean Holabird

Vladimir Nabokov, Alphabet in Color

Brian Boyd, Jean Holabird

48 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

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Vladimir Nabokov saw rich colors in letters and sounds and noted the deficiency of color in literature, praising Gogol as the first Russian writer to truly appreciate yellow and violet. He saw q as browner than k, and s as not the light blue of c,...

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