This collection of essaysfocuses on a subject largely neglected in Nabokovian criticismthe importance and significance of the five senses in Vladimir Nabokovs work, poetics, politics and aesthetics. This text analyzes the crucial role of the authors 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 Nabokovs memories and in his creative process.

Marie Bouchet is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Toulouse, France, and the author ofLolita: A Novel by Vladimir Nabokov, A Film by Stanley Kubrick (2009). She has co-edited two collections of essays onLolita, and is in charge of the annotations to the novel forThe Nabokovian.

Julie Loison-Charles is Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at Lille University, France, and has published a book on Nabokovs use of foreign words (Vladimir Nabokov, ou lécriture du multilinguisme: mots étrangers et jeux de mots, 2016). She has organized several conferences on Nabokov.

Isabelle Poulin is Professor of Comparative Literature at Bordeaux Montaigne University, France, and author of several books on Nabokov. Her latest are Poétiques du récit denfance: Benjamin, Sarraute et Nabokov (2012) andLe Transport romanesque. Le Roman comme espace de la traduction, de Nabokov à Rabelais(2017).

Chapter 1: Do the Senses Make Sense?: An Introduction,Marie Bouchet, Julie Loison-Charles, Isabelle Poulin.- Chapter 2: Do the Senses Make Sense?,Brian Boyd.- Chapter 3: To breathe the dust of this painted life. Modes of Engaging the Senses in Vladimir NabokovsInvitation to a Beheading,Lilla Farmasi.- Chapter 4: Nabokovs Visceral, Cerebral and Aesthetic Senses,Michael Rodgers.- Chapter 5: Developing Transnational Style: Particularities of Nabokovs Lexicon and Cognitive Frames inThe Gift in Relation to the Five Senses,Lyudmila Razumova.- Chapter 6: An Eden of Sensations: The Five Senses inSpeak, Memory,Damien Mollaret.- Chapter 7: A Look at the Spectropoetics of Photography in Nabokovs fiction,Yannicke Chupin.- Chapter 8: Visual Agnosia in Nabokov: When One of the Senses Cant Make Sense,Susan Elizabeth Sweeney.- Chapter 9: Translating Taste and Switching Tongues,Julie Loison-Charles.- Chapter 10: Translation as Craft and Heroic Deed: On the Political Stakes of a Multilingual Sensoriality,Isabelle Poulin.- Chapter 11: Sensuality and the Senses in Nabokov,Maurice Couturier.- Chapter 12: The Eyes Have It: The Pleasures and Problems of Scopophilia in Nabokovs Work,Julian Connolly.- Chapter 13: Thecarmen in NabokovsLolita,Suzanne Fraysse.- Chapter 14:Id Like to Taste the Inside of Your Mouth: The Mouth as Locus of Disgust in Nabokovs Fiction,Anastasia Tolstoy.- Chapter 15: An Introduction to Synesthesia Via Vladimir Nabokov,Jean-Michel Hupé.- Chapter 16: Neurological Synaesthesia vs Literary Synaesthesia: Can Nabokov Help Bridge the Gap?,Marie Bouchet.- Chapter 17: Undulations and Vibrations, Tonalities and Harmonies: Nabokov, Acoustics and the Otherworld,Sabine Metzger.- Chapter 18: Vladimir Nabokovs Musico-Literary Microcosm: Music and Nabokovs Quartet,Kiyoko Magome.- Chapter 19: Tactio has come of age: the Tactile Sense in NabokovsLolita, Pale Fire andAda,Léopold Reigner.- Chapter 20: Embodied Memories in Ada, or Ardor and Speak, Memory,Nathalia Saliba Dias.- Chapter 21: A Tactile Sensation is a Blind Spot: Nabokovs Aesthetics of Touch,Lara Delage-Toriel.