Claudio Soares sent this
link: obituário de VN publicado pela Revista Veja em 13 de
julho de 1977.
Here is part of the article (which
can be examined in full at the Veja address).
VN's obituary
note brings up controversial issues,presenting Vladimir Nabokov as
a "great minor ficcionist," "a second team writer", who wrote "creative
English."
His achievements lay in "creating
characters that symbolized collective representations - above all the
mythological Lolita..."
We also read that "it was the
scandalous success of this novel that saved Nabokov from remaining anonymous and
which transformed him into a controversial,rich and famous author.
Establishing Humbert Humbert as an anti-hero and treating his subject with
compassion, VN foresaw the winds of literary
upheavals..."