An Nabokov item by the late Marianne Shapiro that
should be brought to the attention of VN scholars. Since it appears in a
posthumus collection of her writings mostly devoted to Italian
literature, it is likely to be missed by Nabokophiles: "From the Critic's
Workbench: Essays in Literature and Semiotics"; Compliled and edited by Michael
Shapiro. Peter Lang: NY, 2005.
Before her untimely death the author
had compiled extensive notes for a study of
Nabokov's Lolita and Pnin. The notes and outlines run some eighty pages
(pp. 349-434) and will be of interest to Nabokov
scholars.
Don Johnson