Round 12: Tossup 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 (15[1])prompted the author of “Notes on Prosody” (15[1])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 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, (10[1])what language was primarily used (10[1])by Vladimir Nabokov? ■END■

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