About the book: 2011 / In the book of Professor Gennady Barabtarlo, the best translator of the works of V.V. Nabokov into Russian, the task is to describe them together - as chapters of one whole, not only the “equipment of verbal expressiveness”, but also the “power of searching thought” of these works are examined. In a conscientious effort to reveal the metaphysical and moral content of creativity, the theory of art and philosophy of the outstanding Russian writer of the 20th century, G. A. Barabtarlo has no equal. According to Omri Ronen, no annotated edition of Nabokov today can do without extensive references to the works of this philologist. The text is printed preserving the author's spelling features. On the cover and in the insert are photographs of the work of G. A. Barabtarlo. On the cover: Cornell University in the town of Ithaca, in upstate New York, above Cayuga Lake. In the building, barely visible because of the fog, where mysterious traces lead, there was the office of Professor Nabokov, and there, in a large auditorium, he taught courses on European and Russian literature to students in the 1950s.