A careful and intimate study on the ways Nabokov's world perception and fictional universe were influenced by his father

Argues that Vladimir Nabokov's worldview and verbal artistry cannot be fully understood without first understanding the relationship between the writer and his father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, the distinguished jurist and prominent statesman at the turn of the 20th century. Although Nabokov experts have long noted the importance of this relationship, this is the very first book-length study on this crucial subject.