纵观文学史,没有一个具有纳博科夫声誉的作家(甚至连歌德也比不上)对自然界曾经产生过如此强烈的探索热情,在科学研究领域作出过如此卓越的贡献。纳博科夫孩童时期萌生的对自然的热情到后来演变成了终生不渝的挚爱和忠诚,这一非同寻常的历程本身便有着巨大的魅力。在小说《洛莉塔》使他一举成名后,纳博科夫也成了世界上最有名的鳞翅昆虫学家。他在40年代负责哈佛大学比较动物学鳞翅目昆虫研究项目期间 Looking at the history of literature, none of the writers with the reputation of Nabokov (and not even Goethe) has so passionately explored nature and made such remarkable contributions in the field of science. The extraordinary enthusiasm that Nabokov’s initiation of childhood has evolved into its everlasting love and loyalty has an enormous appeal in this extraordinary course. After the novel Lolita made him famous, Nabokov became the world’s most famous lepidopteran entomologist. He was responsible for Harvard University’s Comparative Zoology Lepidoptera Insect Research Project in the 1940s