Dana Dragunoiu has also written about VN's monism in the context of Berkeley, both in a Nabokov Studies article (“Dialogues with Berkeley: Idealist Metaphysics and Epistemology in Nabokov’s Bend Sinister.” Nabokov Studies 5 (1998/1999): 47-62) and in her dissertation, " 'The Universe Embraced by Consciousness': Nabokov's Philosophical Domain. "   (U of Toronto, 2000).

 The original quotation is a few pages before the one mentioned in Michael Glynn's message--precisely, on page 85.

I don't have time just now to provide a review of all the materials; Dragunoiu's dissertation survey is more comprehensive than my own brief treatment (in Jane Grayson et al., Nabokov's World, Palgrave 2002).  It is a very rich topic.

Stephen Blackwell

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