Nabokov doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would want to have a child. Was Dimitri an accident? Was it a way to keep Vera busy so he could go butterfly hunting without having to worry about her taking the BBC?
>>8853525
It was all to cover his mad lust for butterflies
The normalish life? A facade!
The rampant pedophilic overtones? A red herring!
All Nabokov truly wanted was to fug the bugs, but naturally he had to hide this
>>8853525
Who says he wanted the child?
>nobles don't want male descendants
>implying you wouldn't push a human out your crotch for lifetime access to nabby's notes
>>8853525
He didn't want a male child that was for sure.
>>8853538
Exactly. And who wouldn't treasure the book he gave his wife, inscribed and adorned with his lovely butterfly drawings on the title pages?
>>8853525
Vera is the one who drove him to all the butterfly locations. He never had a driver's license.
>>8853958
that's the question op was posing