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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:02:11 -0500
From: Andrew Brown <as-brown@comcast.net>
VN takes extraordinary care in creating Humbert'
s childhood and background, with that genius characterized by the infinite
ability for taking pains. The blue sea and white sands of the Mirana Hotel, the
kind yet casual father, and the boy's all important affair, a love that the
winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and he, until a wind blew out of a cloud,
chilling and killing the child on Corfu. A small part of me half suspects that
VN took such pains not only to create a garden of beauty from which a serpent
would writhe, but possibly to make it incontrovertably clear for the questing
academics of the future that VN and Humbert shared absolutely nothing in
common. Humbert is a wanderer and an artiste manque, compiler of a textbook, if
I'm not mistaken, of English tales translated for French readers. Or maybe vice
versa. One thing for certain is that VN does not permit Humbert, or his story,
to have any hint of VN's own background.
----- Original Message -----
From: Donald B. Johnson
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 4:42 PM
Subject: Fwd: Question regarding a VN quote
EDRESPONSE, Appels' ANNOTATED LOLITA. McGraw-Hill: NY, 1970, p. 428, note
276/2.
VN was referring to Humbert's genealogy, rather than the novel.
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:13:54 EST
From: RAT101@aol.com
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Subject: Question regarding a VN quote
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Hello, I am wondering if anyone can help on the following:
There is a quotation from VN somewhere in which he describes how most of the
allusions in Lolita are French or English, and not Russian, that he kept
Russians out of Lolita...
I cannot remember where this is from...i would like to re-read this exactly
and in its entirety, and know where to find it.
Thank you in advance,
Alan Chin
New York
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Hello, I am wondering if anyone can help on the following:
There is a quotation from VN somewhere in which he describes how most of the
allusions in Lolita are French or English, and not Russian, that he kept
Russians out of Lolita...
I cannot remember where this is from...i would like to re-read this exactly
and in its entirety, and know where to find it.
Thank you in advance,
Alan Chin
New York
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