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Jansy: Umberto Eco has written a short story called 'Nonita', about a man,
called Umberto Umberto, who falls in love with a granny. A clear, though net
very humorous, parody of *Lolita.* Eco wrote that he wrote the story because
he was struck by the identical names of his and of Humbert Humbert.
2010/3/17 Jansy <jansy@aetern.us>
> For the first time in my (not very thorough) experience of reading or
> browsing through Umberto Eco's books, did I come across the name of Nabokov.
> Cf. *Umberto Eco*, *The Infinity of Lists, from Homer to Joyce*,
> Macklehose Press, London, 2009.
>
> It appears in an illustration, on page 255, which reproduces the cover of
> "The New Yorker", 18 October 1969, by *Saul Steinberg*.
> It is inserted in Ch.15 "Excess, from Rabelais Onwards."
>
> Writes Eco: "At this point we find ourselves faced with two trends, both
> present in the history of lists but even more so in modern and post-modern
> literature. There is a list *coherent by excess* that nonetheless puts
> together entities that have some form of kinship among them; and there are
> lists, which in principle are ot necessarily required to be excessively
> long, which are an assembly of things deliberately devoid of any apparent
> reciprocal relationship, so much so that such cases have been referred to as
> *chaotic enumeration*..."
>
> In the magazine cover the name Nabokov is found right after Gogol, before
> Hi Nabor, While-U-Wait, U Turn.
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called Umberto Umberto, who falls in love with a granny. A clear, though net
very humorous, parody of *Lolita.* Eco wrote that he wrote the story because
he was struck by the identical names of his and of Humbert Humbert.
2010/3/17 Jansy <jansy@aetern.us>
> For the first time in my (not very thorough) experience of reading or
> browsing through Umberto Eco's books, did I come across the name of Nabokov.
> Cf. *Umberto Eco*, *The Infinity of Lists, from Homer to Joyce*,
> Macklehose Press, London, 2009.
>
> It appears in an illustration, on page 255, which reproduces the cover of
> "The New Yorker", 18 October 1969, by *Saul Steinberg*.
> It is inserted in Ch.15 "Excess, from Rabelais Onwards."
>
> Writes Eco: "At this point we find ourselves faced with two trends, both
> present in the history of lists but even more so in modern and post-modern
> literature. There is a list *coherent by excess* that nonetheless puts
> together entities that have some form of kinship among them; and there are
> lists, which in principle are ot necessarily required to be excessively
> long, which are an assembly of things deliberately devoid of any apparent
> reciprocal relationship, so much so that such cases have been referred to as
> *chaotic enumeration*..."
>
> In the magazine cover the name Nabokov is found right after Gogol, before
> Hi Nabor, While-U-Wait, U Turn.
> Search the archive<http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en> Contact
> the Editors <nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu> Visit "Nabokov
> Online Journal" <http://www.nabokovonline.com> Visit Zembla<http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm> View
> Nabokv-L Policies <http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm> Manage
> subscription options <http://listserv.ucsb.edu/>
>
> All private editorial communications, without exception, are read by both
> co-editors.
>
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