| Nabokov, Perversely Eric Naiman explores the significance and consequences of Nabokov's insistence on bringing the issue of art's essential perversity to the fore, particularly in Lolita, Pnin, Bend Sinister, and Ada. Eric Naiman is Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology . |