The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

In October he met Edmund Wilson who became his close friend (until their falling out two decades later) and introduced Nabokov's work to American editors. Many other subtle. His remains were cremated and are buried at the Clarens cemetery in Montreux.

Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is his most famous novel and often considered his finest work in English. S. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose.