Packet 6: Tossup 15

A story by this author consists of a letter to a “lady novelist” whom the narrator accuses of fictionalizing his own first love, but with all the facts wrong. This proponent of the “divine detail” wrote a story whose narrator fails to confess his love to the wife of a mediocre expatriate writer before a car crash kills her (15[1])at the title “cloudy and dull” seaside town. (15[1])A book of this author’s “dozen” collects a story (15[1])that ends with a man reading the labels (15[1])of jelly jars as a phone (15[1])rings, (15[2])as well as (*) “Spring in Fialta.” (10[1])This (10[1])author implied there were two (10[1])plots in a story about a couple (10[1])whose son is treated for “referential (10[4])mania.” (10[2]-5[1])This author (10[4])switched to English (10[1])for the story “Signs and Symbols” (10[2])and a novel (10[2])in which he (10[1])anagrammed himself as Vivian Darkbloom. (10[10])For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])what (10[1])Russian émigré (10[1])created Humbert Humbert? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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