The literary activity of Vladimir Nabokov continued for over half a century in three languages and two continents. In the book of Nabokov's researcher and translator Andrei Babikov, on the basis of extensive archival material, all the main components of the writer's diverse literary baggage are considered in their inextricable connection: poetry, theater and cinema, Russian and English prose, memoirs, auto-translation, lectures, critical articles and reviews, epistolary. Considerable attention in "Reading Nabokov" is given to such little-studied aspects of Nabokov's creative biography as his emigrant and American environment, participation in literary associations, preparation of manuscripts for publication and questions of textual criticism, late stylistic innovations, initial editions and subsequent transformations ideas of Camera Obscura, The Gift and Lolita. Based on a holistic view of the phenomenon of a bilingual writer, without simplifying or dividing his art into "Russian" and "American" periods, the author of the book finds a lot of convincing evidence that the science of Nabokov is waiting for many discoveries and new readings.< p>In addition to a number of archival writings, published so far only once in periodicals, the book includes several Nabokov's manuscripts published for the first time - lectures, reports, notes, poems and letters.