The Enchanter Nabokov and Happiness

The protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift playfully dreamed of writing "A Practical Handbook: How to Be Happy." Now, Nabokov's own creative reader Lila Azam Zanganeh lends life to this vision with sly sophistication and ebullient charm, as she shares the delirious joy to be found in reading the masterpieces of "the great writer of happiness." Plunging into the enchanted and luminous worlds of Speak, Memory; Ada, or Ardor ; and the infamous Lolita , Zanganeh seeks out the Nabokovian experience of time, memory, sexual passion, nature, loss, love in all its forms, and language in all its allusions. She explores Nabokov's geography-from his Russian childhood to the landscapes of "his" America-suffers encounters with his beloved "nature," hallucinates an interview with the master, and seeks the "crunch of happiness" in his singular vocabulary. This beautifully illuminated book will both reignite the passion of experienced Nabokovians and lure the innocent reader to a well of delights as yet unseen.

Foreword	p. xv
Why read this or any other books?
Prologue	p. 1
A Dreamer's Extravagant Happiness	p. 3
Where the writer dies into an unfinished book and the reader embarks on a posthumous search to track him down
Happiness in a Bright Dot of Memory	p. 19
Where the writer recaptures time and the reader pulls out a mirror
Happiness, or at Least a Part of It	p. 31
Where the writer feels terribly infatuated and the reader turns out to be something of a sleuth
A Burst of Happiness	p. 43
Where the writer talks about the only real thing in the world and the reader becomes quite talkative
A Summary of Six Mad Hatters' Happiness	p. 47
Where the writer and others fall madly in love and the reader falls asleep
Happiness Across a Transparent Abyss	p. 67
Where the writer loses all he ever had and the reader goes off on a tangent
Happiness, Counterclockwise	p. 83
Where the writer dreams up paradise and the reader leaps straight into it
Writing Happiness: A Practical Handbook	p. 91
Where the writer scribbles ecstatically and the reader spies over his shoulder
Sundry Details of Happiness	p. 105
Where the writer showcases his literature and the reader shows off enlightening commentaries
April Happiness in Arizona	p. 117
Where the writer discovers a dream-bright America and the reader is granted an exclusive interview
Natural and Unnatural Happiness	p. 133
Where the writer revels in the wizardry of nature and the reader sets out to imitate him
A Reader's Adventure in Happiness	p. 149
Where the writer retreats to the background and the reader boldly takes over
The Crunch of Happiness	p. 159
Where the writer uses scintillating words and the reader swallows them one at a time
Happiness Through the Looking Glass	p. 173
Where the writer peers beyond the limits of life and the reader steals a furtive glance
Particles of Happiness	p. 185
Where the writer uncovers one thousand shades of light and the reader encounters him again
Credits	p. 191
Sources	p. 193
Comprehensive Quote Index	p. 195
Photography Index	p. 225
Acknowledgments	p. 227
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