Early on he recounts his marriage to Valeria, who ran with the Russian ex-colonel Taxovich.  
In a 1956 commentary, the author of the novel narrated by this character claimed that he was inspired by an ape who charcoaled a drawing of the bars of his cage.  Early on he recounts his marriage to Valeria, who ran with the Russian ex-colonel Taxovich.  A scholar and the author of "The Proustian theme in a letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey," he compiles a manual of French literature used by the sketchy Gaston Godin.  After stints living in Ramsdale and Beardsley, and after two cross-country trips, he leaves the "fire of his loins" with Dick Schiller and kills Clare Quilty.  For 10 points - name this older lover of Dolores Haze in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
In a 1956 commentary, the author of the novel narrated by this character claimed that he was inspired by an ape who charcoaled a drawing of the bars of his cage.  
Humbert Humbert