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Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] Clouzot adaptation
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:34:37 -0700
From: Doug Holm <dkholm@qwest.net>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
References: <005401c7bb4a$1c82d9e0$6401a8c0@Don> <636C32AE-4723-443A-8C54-775E242C97CD@earthlink.net>
Hello:

I was just reading through Judith Mayne's book on the film Le
Corbeau, published by the U of IL Press, and on page 73, Mayne
mentions, startlingly, that in 1943, director Henri-Georges Clouzot
was going to adapt Nabokov's Camera Obscura to the screen in
collaboration with Sartre (!). The project was abandoned. The author
doesn't offer a specific citation for this fact, but I wonder if this
situation was another contributing factor to Nabokov's later
antipathy to Sartre, given that Clouzot was considered by many a
German collaborator.

DKH


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