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> Note also the strangler convict "Armand Rave" perhaps echoing inter alia
> French homosexual criminal writer Jean Genet who figures in VN-Edmund
> Wilson letters. What is one to make of the similarity of his name to
> Armande?
This might be a clue . . . Genet's *Journal du Voleur* (1949) has a
character named Armand, a colleague
of the protagonist in Belgium--Armande's nationality is Belgium too. As Don
has mentioned, VN wrote to Edmund Wilson, who recommended Genet and lent
*Notre Dame des Fleurs*, that he had read the book with pleasure. VN
appreciated Genet's artistic originality.
I have no idea about Rave. Armand in JdV is not rave.
Akiko Nakata
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D. Barton Johnson
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> Note also the strangler convict "Armand Rave" perhaps echoing inter alia
> French homosexual criminal writer Jean Genet who figures in VN-Edmund
> Wilson letters. What is one to make of the similarity of his name to
> Armande?
This might be a clue . . . Genet's *Journal du Voleur* (1949) has a
character named Armand, a colleague
of the protagonist in Belgium--Armande's nationality is Belgium too. As Don
has mentioned, VN wrote to Edmund Wilson, who recommended Genet and lent
*Notre Dame des Fleurs*, that he had read the book with pleasure. VN
appreciated Genet's artistic originality.
I have no idea about Rave. Armand in JdV is not rave.
Akiko Nakata
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D. Barton Johnson
NABOKV-L