Nabokov 's European orientation continued during the first decade of his self-styled American period . In this time of transition , a distinctively American subject matter was slow to enter Nabokov 's poetry and fiction . Only when he began Lolita at midcentury did he turn decisively to what he called ``the task of inventing America (Foster 8 . As the writer started Lolita , he was still looking back at his pre-American past , for at that time he also wrote most of the sketches...











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