Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0004008, Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:54:45 -0700

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Isabelle Nabokov
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Does anyone know if Isabelle Nabokov, an anthropologist from Princeton,
has a family connection to VN? Given her interest in the dynamics
and rituals of marital relationships in different cultures (she recently
published an article "Expel the Lover, Recover the Wife: Symbolic Analysis
of a South Indian Exorcism," about the practice of making young Tamil
wives go through trance-inducing rites forcing them to confess to illicit
romantic fantasies in order to become "good wives"), I wonder what her
take on the VN and VeN marital relationship may be after she reads Stacy
Schiff's biography of seemingly the best wife there ever was. Especially
if she is related to them.

Galya Diment