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LOLITA Query (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. The originator of the the query below, Christine
Raguet-Bouvart, is one of the leading Fench Nabokov scholars.
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From: OLLIER Nicole - Pays Anglophones <ollier@montaigne.u-bordeaux.fr>
From: Christine Raguet-Bouvart
I have always wondered whether there was a real painter / painting
hiding behind those lines in LOLITA, I, 13, p. 58 (Appel's
Annotated)(despite the fact that it is a superb "mise-en-abyme" of H & Lo's
relation on the couch and what / where is (or might be) this "picture of the
week".
a surrealist painter relaxing supine, on a beach and near him, likewise
supine, a plaster replica of the Venus di Milo, half-buried in sand. The
Picture of the Week, said the legend.
If anyone can give a clue or a cue,...
Thanks.
Christine Raguet-Bouvart
Raguet-Bouvart, is one of the leading Fench Nabokov scholars.
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From: OLLIER Nicole - Pays Anglophones <ollier@montaigne.u-bordeaux.fr>
From: Christine Raguet-Bouvart
I have always wondered whether there was a real painter / painting
hiding behind those lines in LOLITA, I, 13, p. 58 (Appel's
Annotated)(despite the fact that it is a superb "mise-en-abyme" of H & Lo's
relation on the couch and what / where is (or might be) this "picture of the
week".
a surrealist painter relaxing supine, on a beach and near him, likewise
supine, a plaster replica of the Venus di Milo, half-buried in sand. The
Picture of the Week, said the legend.
If anyone can give a clue or a cue,...
Thanks.
Christine Raguet-Bouvart