1Galya Diment, Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel, University of Washington Press, 1997, chapter3, pp. dd - 45.
2Brian Boyd, The American Years, Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. 292 -298, p. 307.
3Gennady Barabtarlo, A Resolved dizcord. This essay, which originally appeared in the author's Aerial View: Essays on Nabokov "s Art and Metaphysics (New York: P. Lang, 1993) , is published at the web site: http : //www. libraries.psu. edu/iasweb/nabokov/ bara21, Part one, Part one, Part one, Part one, Part one, Part two, Part three.
4Hillis Miller, Fiction and Repetition, Oxford: Basil Blaekwell, 1982, pp. 2 -3.
5Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov : the American Years, Chapter 13; Charles Nicol, " Pnin's History", in J. E. Rivers and Charles Nicol eds., Nabokov's Fifth Arc: Nabokov and Others on his Life's Work, Texas University Press, 1982.
6Stephen Jan Parker, Understanding Vladimir Nabokov, University of South Carolina Press,1987, p. 87.
7Vladimir Nabokov, Selected Letters, 1940 - 1977, eds Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. Bruccoli, San Diego Harcourt Brace Jovanovich-Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1989pp. 156 - 157.
8Galya Diment, Pniniad: Vladimir Nabolmv and Marc Szeftel, University of Washington Press, 1997, pp. 44-45.