Yes, it also struck me that, with regard to usage of Russian, most of the time Wilson is either flat out wrong or argues about inconsequential things. I wonder

Yes, it also struck me that, with regard to usage of Russian, most of the time Wilson is either flat out wrong or argues about inconsequential things. I wonder if Nabokov's translation was meant to serve as a reference for more traditional, future translators, like Johnston and Falen, as a source of very precise meaning. An "intermediate representation" of sorts...