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EDITOR'S NOTE: LOLITA has inspired a number of novels--some of them quite
good. I would mention Donald Harington's _EKATERINA_ which can be sampled
on ZEMBLA, the Nabokov Web Site
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm
and also Sasha Sokolov's _Astrophobia_ (in the original
Russian--_Palisandriia_)
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>From the latest NEWSWEEK (March 4, 1996):
BOOKS
ROLL OVER, NABOKOV
IN A NEW NOVEL, LOLITA MEETS HANNIBAL LECTER
By David Gates
"At least you have to admire A. M. Homes's nerve: not just her new novel,
THE END OF ALICE... features a killer pedophile, but because she's
inviting comparisons with one of the century's great books, Vladimir
Nabokov's LOLITA. ... No one who's read LOLITA could miss Homes's tips of
the hat: butterflies; a motel; a thunderstorm; tennis; an unwashed,
junk-food-eating pubescent girl who takes the sexual initiative; an
imprisoned narrator with heart trouble. For Nabokov's fictional Ramsdale
this novel amusingly substitutes the real-life Scarsdale. ... In THE END
OF ALICE, the true seducer turns out to be...Nabokov."
The book, in case you are interested, was published by Scribner, is 270 pp,
and costs $22.
good. I would mention Donald Harington's _EKATERINA_ which can be sampled
on ZEMBLA, the Nabokov Web Site
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm
and also Sasha Sokolov's _Astrophobia_ (in the original
Russian--_Palisandriia_)
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>From the latest NEWSWEEK (March 4, 1996):
BOOKS
ROLL OVER, NABOKOV
IN A NEW NOVEL, LOLITA MEETS HANNIBAL LECTER
By David Gates
"At least you have to admire A. M. Homes's nerve: not just her new novel,
THE END OF ALICE... features a killer pedophile, but because she's
inviting comparisons with one of the century's great books, Vladimir
Nabokov's LOLITA. ... No one who's read LOLITA could miss Homes's tips of
the hat: butterflies; a motel; a thunderstorm; tennis; an unwashed,
junk-food-eating pubescent girl who takes the sexual initiative; an
imprisoned narrator with heart trouble. For Nabokov's fictional Ramsdale
this novel amusingly substitutes the real-life Scarsdale. ... In THE END
OF ALICE, the true seducer turns out to be...Nabokov."
The book, in case you are interested, was published by Scribner, is 270 pp,
and costs $22.