For 10 points, name this Russian author of Pnin who created the character of Humbert Humbert in his novel Lolita.
This author called a good reader one who "has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense," rather than belong to a book club in Lectures on Literature and he used Antiterra as the setting for his story Ada. In one of this man's stories, Aleksandr Luzhin begins to believe that he is playing some unseen opponent because the world is a big chessboard, that story was translated as The Defense. In addition to his autobiography (*) Speak Memory, the mad king Kinbote comments on a thousand line poem by John Shade in one work by this author, while in another C Cincinattus is executed for gnostical turpitude, those are Pale Fire and Invitation to a Beheading. For 10 points, name this Russian author of Pnin who created the character of Humbert Humbert in his novel Lolita.
This author called a good reader one who "has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense," rather than belong to a book club in Lectures on Literature and he used Antiterra as the setting for his story Ada.
Vladimir {Nabokov}