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Trivia: NABOKV-L in ESQUIRE
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The Feb. Elizabeth Kaye ESQUIRE story on the Lyne-Schiff LOLITA is
accompanied by a short profile of the story and its author in the
"Backstage with Esquire" section (p. 14). In part, it read: "Forty years
later, Nabokov's nymphet continues to stir readers' passions. Even on
NABOKV-L, an electronic mailing list maintained by amateur Nabokovians and
scholars, it was fiercely debated this fall whether LOLITA was appropriate
reading for teenagers or was too "corrupting." The answer was yes on both
counts.
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
accompanied by a short profile of the story and its author in the
"Backstage with Esquire" section (p. 14). In part, it read: "Forty years
later, Nabokov's nymphet continues to stir readers' passions. Even on
NABOKV-L, an electronic mailing list maintained by amateur Nabokovians and
scholars, it was fiercely debated this fall whether LOLITA was appropriate
reading for teenagers or was too "corrupting." The answer was yes on both
counts.
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618