Packet 13: Tossup 1

Questions 1. In one novel, a class about this language at Harvard is how a linguistics student named Selin Karadağ meets a mathematics student. A literal and unrhymed translation of a work in this language into English prompted the author of “Notes on Prosody” to feud with Edmund Wilson. Translations from this language have been done by Richard Pevear and Constance Garnett. A novelist who wrote works like (*) Laughter in the Dark and Invitation to a Beheading in this language (10[1])self-translated a work about the “confessions of a white widowed male” into this language. For 10 points, before writing works like Pale Fire and Lolita, what language was primarily used by Vladimir Nabokov? ■END■

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