Nabokovism

English Etymology From en Nabokov ism. Noun ~ An attitude or turn of phrase characteristic of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977). en 1966 Maurice Schneps; Alvin D. Coox The Japanese image, Volume 1 They are rather little signs to suggest how one might proceed up a road on which I did not do very well myself, the road to pure Nabokovism. en 1974 Carl R. Proffer A Book of Things about Vladimir Nabokov We both said, well then, let's put together some of the Nabokovisms we've been guffawing ecstatically over behind our hand on this magical white night. 1979, The Spectator (volume 243, part 2) Nabokovisms, such as his description of cheerful Soviet propaganda as 'this pail of milk of human kindness with a dead rat at the bottom'. en 1996 Natasha Perova Captives and latest Booker winners an irresponsible and profligate imitator (like many of the forty long-listed authors, who seem to be victims of the current epidemics of Nabokovism en eponyms