CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface

1.   CHRONIC CONDITION

Dream, Memory

Dunne and His Theory

Nabokov’s Experiment

2.   DREAMER’S LOG

3.   MORE DREAMS

Prior to the Experiment

After the Experiment

In Letters to Wife

In the Book of Memoirs

4.   THE ART OF DREAMING

Professional

Doom

Daytime Impressions

Memories of the Remote Past

Precognitive

Erotic

Nested

Life Is a Dream

Oneiric Realism

Father

Insomnia

5.   ARTISTIC TIME

Two Prime Mysteries

The Montreux Novels

Boomeranging Time

Clarity of Vision

Conclusion

Permissions Acknowledgments

Nabokov Works Cited

Select Bibliography

Name Index

Index of Nabokov Tıtles