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The class, in Arts & Sciences, takes a deep dive into the legendary author and professor\u2019s passion for the natural world<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This story was adapted from a feature<\/a> in the <\/em>Cornell Chronicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Kathy Hovis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s how the well-known story goes: Vladimir Nabokov, professor of literature and soon-to-be-famous novelist, meets with a Cornell student who considers himself a budding writer. \u201cWhat kind of tree is that outside my window?\u201d Nabokov asks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d the student says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen you\u2019ll never be a writer,\u201d Nabokov says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A strange response, perhaps, for an author. But not so strange, when one discovers Nabokov spent much of his time on campus, from 1948\u201359, at the Cornell University Insect Collection<\/a>, today housed in Comstock Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nabokov\u2019s deep interest in and connection to the natural world and his cross-pollinating interests in the sciences and the arts were the focus of a new seminar, \u201cNabokov, Naturally,\u201d taught in fall 2023 by Anindita Banerjee<\/a>, associate professor of comparative literature in the College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nabokov taught on the Hill for a decade in the mid-1900s. (Rare and Manuscript Collections)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe artistic and literary and creative parts of Nabokov\u2019s personality greatly influenced his practices in the sciences, and the same is true in reverse,\u201d Banerjee says. \u201cBut few people know about that, so I wanted to stitch back together these two parts of Nabokov at Cornell that are divided and help students to feel that his presence is still here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An avid butterfly collector, Nabokov developed theories, recently proven accurate, about the evolution of a group of butterflies known as the Polyommatus blues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The artistic and literary and creative parts of Nabokov\u2019s personality greatly influenced his practices in the sciences, and the same is true in reverse.<\/p>\nProfessor Anindita Banerjee<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But it was his groundbreaking work in the imperiled habitat of the Karner blue butterfly in Upstate New York that has had a lasting impact on environmental legislation and action to this day. Instrumental in spurring conservation activism in the region, the tiny butterfly played a key role in the passage of the federal Endangered Species Act of 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to his work on butterflies, while at Cornell Nabokov wrote the novels Lolita<\/em> and Pnin<\/em>, published his experimental memoir Conclusive Evidence<\/em>, which was revised and published as Speak, Memory<\/em> in 1966, and conceived of Pale Fire<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students in the class read Pnin<\/em> and Speak, Memory<\/em> and examples of his poetry, short fiction, essays, letters, and scientific papers. They also learned how his work continues to influence contemporary literature in many languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Influential scientific and artistic works by Cornell naturalists past and present\u2014from Anna Botsford Comstock 1885 to Anurag Agrawal<\/a>, the James A. Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies in CALS\u2014proved indispensable for uncovering the ways in which human affairs and natural environments are inevitably and inextricably entangled in Nabokov\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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An in-class discussion.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Nabokov represents the nexus of science and art, says Braeden Thomson \u201924, a student in the class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a point in Speak, Memory<\/em> where he quotes a friend as saying that while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point in space, the poet sees everything that happens in one point in time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The students spent hours doing research in the University Library\u2019s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) and the insect collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe talked a lot in class about how tactile and how textural a writer Nabokov was and how much he drew from his day-to-day life in the physical world, which made his writings all the more vibrant,\u201d says Gracey Brouillard \u201924.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConnecting all of his descriptions to the intense detailed work that we could see he did with butterflies\u2014how he studied all of the minute morphological characteristics of them\u2014that related to the way we dissected the text and the ways we scientifically analyzed his artistic writing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banerjee says her students uncovered little gems from Nabokov\u2019s lecture notes and from notes taken by his students that could well serve as maxims for integrating environmental thought and action across the disciplines.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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For example, he told students to always bring both a dictionary and a magnifying glass to his classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery great writer is a great deceiver,\u201d Nabokov wrote in lecture notes, housed in RMC. \u201cSo is nature. Protective coloration. Spells and wiles. The writer of fiction follows nature\u2019s lead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Will Anderson \u201924, the most profound lesson from the class lies in a realization that his future doesn\u2019t depend on choosing one interest over another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all interconnected, not just one discipline or one career path,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s where the flow of whatever is going on takes you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We talked a lot in class about how tactile and how textural a writer Nabokov was and how much he drew from his day-to-day life in the physical world.<\/p>\nGracey Brouillard \u201924<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Banerjee says Nabokov\u2019s life and work yields lessons that are relevant to our lives today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHis work is filled with the convergence and coexistence of catastrophe and beauty, of despair and joy, of which the Karner blue butterfly is a great example,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt offers a way of living through finding knowledge and beauty and meaning that is really important to the way we are trying to inhabit the planet right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: Students examine specimens at the Insect Collection. All class photos by Patrick Shanahan.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published December 19, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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