Julia Trubikhina received her PhD in Comparative Literature with a specialization in Slavic studies from New York University. She teaches in the Department of Classics and Oriental Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. In addition to articles and reviews in academic journals (most recently, “A Discrete Amalgam: New York Poets from the Former Soviet Union” in Canadian-American Slavic Studies), Julia Trubikhina (as Julia Trubikhina-Kunina) also published translations and contributed original poetry to Russian, European, and American anthologies and literary journals. She is currently working on two translation projects: a bilingual edition of poetry by Vladimir Aristov for Ugly Duckling Presse and a volume of poetry and prose by Elena Shvarts.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Nabokov’s Beginnings: “Ania” in Wonderland or “Does Asparagus Grow in a Pile of Manure?”Chapter 2: The Novel on Translation and “über-Translation”: Nabokov’s Pale Fire and Eugene OneginChapter 3: “Cinemizing” as Translation: Nabokov’s Screenplay of Lolita and Stanley Kubrick’s and Adrian Lyne’s Cinematic VersionsConclusion: Vladimir Nabokov within the Russian and Western Traditions of TranslationSelected BibliographyIndex

Winner of The Samuel Schuman Prize for the Best First Book on Nabokov (International Vladimir Nabokov Society)“The Translator’s Doubts is a striking departure from the traditional studies of Nabokov’s work as a translator. Not only does it mark a significant shift in critical perspective, but it also uses Nabokov as a means to a greater end — a meditation on “literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation” (11) — with value far beyond the world of Nabokov criticism. . . .Each chapter, even taken separately, adds hugely to the corpus of Nabokov criticism, from philology and archival scholarship to new theoretical perspectives. [Trubikhina’s] sophisticated and insightful work will surely become one of the touchstone texts on Nabokov and translation for years to come.”— Bryan Karetnyk, University College London, Nabokov Online Journal, Vol. X–XI (2016/2017)