Insomniac Dreams

"Who needs fantasy fiction when you can plunge through the trapdoor in Nabokov‘s pillow into his lucid dreamworlds, with Gennady Barabtarlo as sage companion and guide?" --Brian Boyd, author of Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years "Nabokov‘s amazing records of his dreams are priceless, and their publication will create a much-deserved critical buzz. They show Nabokov at his most vulnerable, raw, and genuine, giving us rare glimpses into his past, his feelings about his parents, his relationship with his wife and son, and his anxieties and hopes. This is a very important book." --Galya Diment, University of Washington "Nabokov‘s notes about his dream experiment offer a private, unguarded view into his inner life during the rich autumn of his genius. By revealing a new facet of Nabokov‘s fascination with the nature of time and the otherworld, they show his remarkable openness to radical ways of thinking. Gennady Barabtarlo‘s masterful analysis of Nabokov‘s notes does full justice to this important contribution to the study of one of the twentieth century‘s most important writers." --Dana Dragunoiu, Carleton University