Definitely...I'm haunted by Nabokov... Today, at the lobby of a hotel, I opened the local paper (www.zerohora.com.br) and there was a short article about VN "with or without abyss". It was written by humorist Luiz Fernando Veríssimo and paraphrased lines of Nabokov about the fine thread separating a writer from an abyss, one side parody, on the opposite, truth.

For Veríssimo, Nabokov was one of the first to suggest this balance between humor and seriousness and the road into post-modern writing (although he himself refused this label). Before VN, only Graham Greene managed this balance without falling into the abyss of an excess of seriousness. Woody Allen equally managed, acording to Veríssimo, but Nabokov was the most agile of them all.

(Later I'll try to send a copy of the article for "sighting", but internet connections are difficult because of the inclement weather..)

Jansy Mello