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Vladimir Nabokov's dream diary reveals experiments with 'backwards timeflow'

Written By Unknown on Friday, November 17, 2017 | 11:40 AM

Newly published collection of the Lolita author’s notes shows him investigating theory that dreams can be inspired by future events

A 1964 diary in which Vladimir Nabokov recorded more than 50 of his dreams – ranging from the erotic to the violent to the surreal – is about to be published for the first time.

“Intensely erotic dream. Blood on sheet,” the novelist writes on 13 December 1964. “End of dream: my sister O, strangely young and languorous … Then stand near a window, sighing, half-seeing view, brooding over the possible consequence of incest.”

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