“Toilers of the world, disband!”: Work, Freedom, and the Creative Act in Nabokov

Nabokovian perspectives on work, especially creative labor and its prerequisites (memory, imagination, freedom, play); jobs/joblessness in Nabokov’s fictions; academia; émigré life; class, wealth, poverty; responses/opposition to Marxism, collectivism, totalitarianism; self-reflexive commentary on writing/style/process. 250-word abstracts.