6. In “Scenes From the Life of a Double Monster,” in Nabokov’s Dozen, Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 1958.
7. In The New Yorker, tr. Dmitri Nabokov, 18 February 1985.
8. In Details of a Sunset and Other Stories, tr. Dmitri and Vladimir Nabokov, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1976.
9. See Author’s Note One.
10. For a name Nabokov subsequently attributed to the protagonist, see Author’s Note One and this page.
11. In A Russian Beauty and Other Stories, tr. Dmitri Nabokov and Simon Karlinsky, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1973.
12. I am indebted, for certain details and citations, to Edwin McDowell’s report in The New York Times of 15 March 1985, regarding the publication by Grove Press of The Confessions of Victor X.
