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From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
To: "D. Barton Johnson (E-mail)" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 12:42 PM
Subject: Addams: TV show or cartoonist?
> There is little reason to entertain the notion that N.'s "Ada" was
> in any way influenced by the television situation comedy "The Addams
> Family." For one thing, that series debuted in America in 1964, by which
> time the Nabokovs were happily ensconsed at the Montreux Palace-where they
> did not own a television. (They did rent one, however, to watch the first
> moon landing.)
>
> I do believe there is ample evidence, though, that N. was familiar
> with, and delighted by, the cartoons by legendary New Yorker contributor
> Charles Addams which formed the basis for the sitcom. I can't find any
> citations in my office library at the moment, but N.'s enthusiasm for the
> work of other New Yorker artists such as Saul Steinberg and Otto Soglow
> (whose last name is secreted in an "Ada" passage) is certainly well known.
>
> GK
>
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
To: "D. Barton Johnson (E-mail)" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 12:42 PM
Subject: Addams: TV show or cartoonist?
> There is little reason to entertain the notion that N.'s "Ada" was
> in any way influenced by the television situation comedy "The Addams
> Family." For one thing, that series debuted in America in 1964, by which
> time the Nabokovs were happily ensconsed at the Montreux Palace-where they
> did not own a television. (They did rent one, however, to watch the first
> moon landing.)
>
> I do believe there is ample evidence, though, that N. was familiar
> with, and delighted by, the cartoons by legendary New Yorker contributor
> Charles Addams which formed the basis for the sitcom. I can't find any
> citations in my office library at the moment, but N.'s enthusiasm for the
> work of other New Yorker artists such as Saul Steinberg and Otto Soglow
> (whose last name is secreted in an "Ada" passage) is certainly well known.
>
> GK
>