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Hurray for Vagrich Bakhchanian!!
His spoof collage for Lolita cover (1975) is attached - he used a real Soviet poster by the way (I don't know, and don't want to know, the original author).
See also other spoofs at:
http://samizdat.zaraz.org/thick/muh_ujma/bakhchanian.html
Of course the girl is much younger...but then Ilyich corrupted all ages and many countries -- Humbert was much humbler in his appetites.
Happy holidays to everybody on NABOKOV-L.
Victor Fet
Department of Biological Sciences
Marshall University
Huntington, WV 25755-2510 USA
ph. (304) 696-3116, fax (304) 696-7136
http://www.science.marshall.edu/fet/euscorpius/Fet.htm
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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 2:45 PM
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Subject: [NABOKV-L] SIGHTING: Lolita, Lenin, and Russian culture minister Sokolov
[EDNOTE. Sandy Klein draws our attention to an article from the St.
Petersburg Times. -- SES]
Making waves:
A Russian exhibition in Paris has been described as a disgrace by the
Russian culture minister.
By Jorg von Uthmann
NEW YORK - An exhibition of contemporary Russian art in France is
causing a stir. The 160 exhibits on show are drawing less attention than
the two dozen that Alexander Sokolov, the Russian culture minister,
prevented from traveling to Paris: He calls them a disgrace for Russia.
[. . .]
Some of the jokes - such as Alexander Kossolapov's "St. Sebastian," a
half-naked, bound youngster under hammer and sickle - are hard to
decipher. Vagrich Bakhchanyan's design for a cover of Vladimir Nabokov's
"Lolita," showing Lenin lifting a young girl, is wittier. [. . .]
http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=24482
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His spoof collage for Lolita cover (1975) is attached - he used a real Soviet poster by the way (I don't know, and don't want to know, the original author).
See also other spoofs at:
http://samizdat.zaraz.org/thick/muh_ujma/bakhchanian.html
Of course the girl is much younger...but then Ilyich corrupted all ages and many countries -- Humbert was much humbler in his appetites.
Happy holidays to everybody on NABOKOV-L.
Victor Fet
Department of Biological Sciences
Marshall University
Huntington, WV 25755-2510 USA
ph. (304) 696-3116, fax (304) 696-7136
http://www.science.marshall.edu/fet/euscorpius/Fet.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On Behalf Of NABOKV-L
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 2:45 PM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: [NABOKV-L] SIGHTING: Lolita, Lenin, and Russian culture minister Sokolov
[EDNOTE. Sandy Klein draws our attention to an article from the St.
Petersburg Times. -- SES]
Making waves:
A Russian exhibition in Paris has been described as a disgrace by the
Russian culture minister.
By Jorg von Uthmann
NEW YORK - An exhibition of contemporary Russian art in France is
causing a stir. The 160 exhibits on show are drawing less attention than
the two dozen that Alexander Sokolov, the Russian culture minister,
prevented from traveling to Paris: He calls them a disgrace for Russia.
[. . .]
Some of the jokes - such as Alexander Kossolapov's "St. Sebastian," a
half-naked, bound youngster under hammer and sickle - are hard to
decipher. Vagrich Bakhchanyan's design for a cover of Vladimir Nabokov's
"Lolita," showing Lenin lifting a young girl, is wittier. [. . .]
http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=24482
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