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Nabokov Criticism in German-Speaking Countries: A Survey

German critics were quick to praise "Sirin" as the major talent in the young generation of Ã©migrÃ© writers. Reviews of the late 1920s express the hope that his works be made available in German translationsÂ—as indeed they soon were. Since then, reviewers have routinely noted new German publications of Nabokov's works. Starting in 1989, each new volume of Dieter Zimmer's Rowohlt edition of Nabokov's collected works has produced a new wave of reviews. German literary scholars have been publishing essays on NabokovÂ— especially since the 1970s, and such studies have grown during the 1980s and 1990s. While earlier essays focused mainly on Nabokov's English works, an increasing number are being devoted to the Russian writings. The first German-language dissertation on Nabokov appeared in 1975, and since then several others (in German and English) have appeared. The following survey first examines German-language Nabokov criticism in newspapers and literary magazines. The second part discusses scholarly essays, dissertations, and recent developments in German-language reception of Nabokov. Full citations will be found in the bibliography section that concludes the survey. The bibliography includes many items not discussed in the survey itself, but does not include criticism published in languages other than German.