Tadashi Wakashima (1952- ) is Professor Emeritus of English (Kyoto University), the current president of the Nabokov Society of Japan, and chair of the Kyoto Reading Circle. He is a chess problem composer and International Master in solving chess problems. He has written books on Nabokov (Lolita, Lolita, Lolita) and other modern and contemporary writers.
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Wyllie, Barbara. 'Nabokov's Cinematic Sensibility and Film Strategy in "The Defense"'. Slavonic and East European Review, 101, 4, 2023, pp. 626-669.
Barbara Wyllie