Nabokov as digital prophet and Pale Fire as hypertext
Born in the nineteenth century, was literary alchemist Vladimir Nabokov also a digital pioneer for our electronic era? Nabokov’s description of a primordial emoticon from 1969 (“I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile—some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket”*) gets new coverage each decade from those chronicling […]
