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Composition

Ostensibly Nabokov's first major work in English, it was composed in Paris while the author sat in the bathroom, his valise set across a bidet as a writing desk.^[1] Nabokov retreated into the washroom to write, so as not to disturb his wife and newborn son in their one-room apartment.