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From: Dmitri
Nabokov
To: NABOKV-L
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 3:18 AM
Subject: TR :
To the
editor,
PS: [I regret that I omitted to mention that the
article I refer to is a review of Finding Myself by Toby Litt filed on
16/06/2003.]
I would be very
curious to know why Lewis Jones attributes a "killer cruelty" to my father,
Vladimir Nabokov. Has Mr. Jones read, for example, Bend Sinister, Invitation
to a Beheading, Pnin, the short stories, the poetry?
Cruelty occupied the pole position on the grid of things Nabokov detested, and
it would have been sufficient to acquaint oneself with any of the above to
perceive his deep sense of humanity and pity for the
underdog.
Dmitri Nabokov,
Montreux Switerland