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Martin Amis on VN & Forthcoming LOLITA CASEBOOK
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EDITOR's NOTE. Ellen Pifer is the author of the seminal NABOKOV and THE
NOVEL, Harvard U.P. (1980).
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Martin Amis on VN]
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:34:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Ellen Pifer <epifer@odin.english.udel.edu>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
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The Amis essay cited below originally appeared under the title "LOLITA
Reconsidered" in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY 270, 3 (Sept. 1992): 109-20.
I cite the same passage in my introduction to VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S LOLITA:
A CASEBOOK, forthcoming from Oxford UP in October 2002.
Ellen Pifer
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, -----> Matthew Beedham wrote:
Hello,
> I thought some might be interested to know about a review of Martin
> Amis's _The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000_
> from the Boston Globe. After describing Amis's admiration for Ballard
> and
> Burroughs, Poet Adam Kirsch writes,
>
> But the god of his idolatry is Nabokov; the last essay in the book, and
> the best, is a celebration of ''Lolita,'' full of loving quotation. His
> description of his copy of the novel, its margins ''a Pompeiian litter
> of ticks, queries, exclamation marks, and lines straight and squiggly
> and doubled and tripled,'' is a good metaphor for his critical
> technique.
>
> You can find the full review on-line at
>
> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/034/living/Amis_s_instructive_passion_for_
> writingP.shtml
>
> or see C5 of the Boston Globe from Feb 3.
>
> Cheers,
> matthew
>
> -------
> Matthew Beedham
> Department of English
> Malaspina University-College
> 900 Fifth Street
> Nanaimo, British Columbia
> V9R 5S5, Canada
>
> (250) 753-3245 x2045
> beedhamm@mala.bc.ca
>
NOVEL, Harvard U.P. (1980).
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Martin Amis on VN]
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:34:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Ellen Pifer <epifer@odin.english.udel.edu>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
------------------
The Amis essay cited below originally appeared under the title "LOLITA
Reconsidered" in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY 270, 3 (Sept. 1992): 109-20.
I cite the same passage in my introduction to VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S LOLITA:
A CASEBOOK, forthcoming from Oxford UP in October 2002.
Ellen Pifer
-------------------------------
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, -----> Matthew Beedham wrote:
Hello,
> I thought some might be interested to know about a review of Martin
> Amis's _The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000_
> from the Boston Globe. After describing Amis's admiration for Ballard
> and
> Burroughs, Poet Adam Kirsch writes,
>
> But the god of his idolatry is Nabokov; the last essay in the book, and
> the best, is a celebration of ''Lolita,'' full of loving quotation. His
> description of his copy of the novel, its margins ''a Pompeiian litter
> of ticks, queries, exclamation marks, and lines straight and squiggly
> and doubled and tripled,'' is a good metaphor for his critical
> technique.
>
> You can find the full review on-line at
>
> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/034/living/Amis_s_instructive_passion_for_
> writingP.shtml
>
> or see C5 of the Boston Globe from Feb 3.
>
> Cheers,
> matthew
>
> -------
> Matthew Beedham
> Department of English
> Malaspina University-College
> 900 Fifth Street
> Nanaimo, British Columbia
> V9R 5S5, Canada
>
> (250) 753-3245 x2045
> beedhamm@mala.bc.ca
>