Subject: Bibliography Wakashima
From: "Shoko Miura" <[email-masked]>
To: "Nabokov Forum" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:07:31 +0900

Wakashima, Tadashi. Ranshi Dokusha no Kikan. (The Return of the
     Astigmatic Reader) Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 2001. (In Japanese)

         The title suggests a sequel to Wakashima's 1993 book of essays, The
Adventures of
     the Astigmatic Reader. Wakashima, professor of English literature at
Kyoto University,
     is a foremost scholar and critic of Nabokov in Japan. He has recently
published a
     brilliant translation of The Defense into Japanese. He also heads the
Kyoto Reading
     Circle which has been publishing notes to Ada in Japan Nabokov
Society's Krug.
         The last chapter, spanning 68 pages of the book, is on Nabokov,
with the chapter heading
     which can be translated as "Nabokov through the Looking-Glass."It is a
series of studies
     by the author on Nabokov's works, mainly Lolita, "Spring in Fialta,"
Ada, Pnin, and Nicolai
     Gogol as well as a comparison of Nabokov and Proust.