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This collection of essays focuses on a subject largely neglected in Nabokovian criticism the importance and significance of the five senses in Vladimir Nabokov s work, poetics, politics and aesthetics. This text analyzes the crucial role of the author s synesthesia and multilingualism in relation to the five senses, as well as the sensual and erotic dimensions of sensoriality in his works. Each chapter provides a highly focused and sometimes provocative approach to the unique role that sensory perceptions play in the shaping and narrating of Nabokov s memories and in his creative process.