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In a message dated 3/5/2010 11:34:04 AM Central Standard Time,
chaiselongue@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
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> On Mar 4, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Jansy wrote: How familiar would Nabokov have
> been with du Maurier? With the "incubus/succubus" lore, so pervasive in
> "The Enchanter" and in "Lolita", less so in his other novels related to
> seduction and "influence" ?
>
>
>
Trilby was a huge international best-seller, probably setting all-time
records. And stage and film versions proliferated as well, to the point that
both "Trilby" and "Svengali" passed into the language, as hat and overpowering
master, respectively.
There's a lot of fascinating material about Du Maurier in David Lodge's
novel about Henry James, Author! Author!, which I just finished teaching.
Interesting that the last two writers I've taught in the course ("Writers on
Writers") have VN connections; Lodge has written about him, and Saul Bellow's
greatest fan was Martin Amis, who has also written about VN. I didn't teach
TRLOSK or PF in this course as I'd done both recently in another graduate
class with many of the same students.
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chaiselongue@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
>
> On Mar 4, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Jansy wrote: How familiar would Nabokov have
> been with du Maurier? With the "incubus/succubus" lore, so pervasive in
> "The Enchanter" and in "Lolita", less so in his other novels related to
> seduction and "influence" ?
>
>
>
Trilby was a huge international best-seller, probably setting all-time
records. And stage and film versions proliferated as well, to the point that
both "Trilby" and "Svengali" passed into the language, as hat and overpowering
master, respectively.
There's a lot of fascinating material about Du Maurier in David Lodge's
novel about Henry James, Author! Author!, which I just finished teaching.
Interesting that the last two writers I've taught in the course ("Writers on
Writers") have VN connections; Lodge has written about him, and Saul Bellow's
greatest fan was Martin Amis, who has also written about VN. I didn't teach
TRLOSK or PF in this course as I'd done both recently in another graduate
class with many of the same students.
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