Gerard de Vries trained as an economist, his 1975 PhD is about monetary unification in the EU and he also published articles and books on economic policy. Part of his leisure time is devoted to literature, and he wrote many articles for Dutch literary journals (mainly on English poets) as well as some short stories.

 

Bibliographie

 

Livres

  • Gerard de Vries et D. Barton Johnson avec un essai par Liana Ashenden. Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Painting. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006.
  • Silent Love. The Annotation and Interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016.

 

Articles sur Pale Fire

  • << Fanning the Poet’s Fire. Some Remarks on Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire. >> Russian Literature Triquarterly 24 (1991) 239-267.
  • << The Case of Hodge and Mystery Lodge. >> The Nabokovian 29 (1991) 44-48.
  • << Sandro Botticelli and Hazel Shade. >> The Nabokovian 49 (2002) 12-23.
  • << Nabokov’s Pale Fire and the Last Works of J. S. Bach. >> Cycnos 2007.
  • << Nabokov’s Pale Fire and the Romantic Movement (With Special Reference to the Brocken, Scott and Goethe). >> Zembla. 2008.
  • << “Mountain, not Fountain”: Pale Fire’s Saving Grace. >> The Nabokovian 63 (2009) 39-52.
  • << Nabokov’s Pale Fire and Alexander Pope. >> dans Yuri Leving, ed., The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2010.
  • << Pale Fire and Doctor Johnson. >> The Nabokovian 66 (2011) 21-30.
  • << Nabokov’s Pale Fire, Pushkin, Belkin, Botkine and Kinbote. >> dans B.V. Averin, ed., Nabokovsky Sbornik 1 (2011) 104-115.
  • << Pale Fire’s “Land Beyond the Veil” and The Aeneid’s “Land that Earth Conceals”. >> The Nabokovian 72 (2014) 4-11.
  • << “Frost at Midnight”: Shades of Coleridge’s Poetry in Pale Fire. >> The Nabokovian 73 (2014) 16-23.
  • << Hazel Shade’s “Pale Spectres” and “Purple Fires”. >> Nabokov Online Journal XII (2018).
  • << Two Notes on Hazel Shade.>> The Nabokovian 79 (Spring 2020).

 

Autres Articles

  • << Pnin: Mirrors and Doubles. >> The Nabokovian 18 (1987) 54-8.
  • << Squirrels. >> The Nabokovian 19 (1987) 56-58.
  • << Shoes. >> The Nabokovian 24 (1990) 42-45.
  • << Wheels in the Low Sun. >> The Nabokovian 31 (1993) 41-45.
  • << Perplex’d in the Extreme; Moral Facets in Vladimir Nabokov’s Works. >> Nabokov Studies 2 (1995) 135-52.
  • << The Origin of “The Proustian Theme in a Letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey.” >> The Nabokovian 36 (1996) 16-21.
  • << Nabokov, Pushkin and Scott. >> Revue de littérature comparée 3 (1997) 307-322.
  • << The Fourth Chapter of The Gift, Inserted or Concerted? >> The Nabokovian 40 (1998) 26-36.
  • << Tiaras and Triads in Speak, Memory. >> The Nabokovian 43 (1999) 29-35.
  • << The True Life of Sebastian Knight. >> Zembla 2011.
  • << Speak, Memory, its Index as a Key to its Thematic Patterns. >> Paper presented for the “Nabokov Readings” St. Petersburg, July 2012.
  • << V. D. Nabokov, Literature and the Fine Arts. >> Paper presented for the conference on V. D. Nabokov, St. Petersburg, September 2014.
  • << Vladimir Nabokov and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. >> dans Ben Dhooge and Jürgen Pieters, eds., Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature. Leyden: Brill-Rodopi, 2018.
  • << Nabokov and George du Maurier. >> The Nabokovian 75 (2018).
  • << Three Notes on Ada. >> The Nabokovian 77 (2019).
  • << Memory and Fiction in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory. >> dans Irena Księżopolska and Mikolaj Wiśniewski, eds., Vladimir Nabokov and the Fictions of Memory. Warsaw: Kronos, 2019.

 

Divers

  • Review of Galya Diment, Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel. Nabokov Studies 4 (1997) 250-53.
  • Guest-editor of the Nabokov issue of the Dutch De Tweede Ronde to celebrate Nabokov’s centenary, with contributions by Brian Boyd, Maurice Couturier, Dieter Zimmer and Leona Toker (1999).
  • Review of “La Venetiana.” The Literary Encyclopedia. (2006).
  • Review of “The Vane Sisters.” The Literary Encyclopedia (2007).
  • << A Trip to Solliès-Pont, alias Molignac. >> Zembla.
  • Review of Gavriel Shapiro, The Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect Accord. Nabokov and his Father. Nabokov Online Journal X-XI (2016-17).