Nabokov has much to answer for. Amis's latest, and now this from Mailer...not to mention that telescoping procession of other fussily articulate, enviably amoral narrators receding from the present towards Humbert's birth. The lure is understandable but the risk (and failure rate) is dauntingly high.

Steven Augustine, Berlin, Germany

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