Has nobody noticed a striking resemblance between the actor George Sanders
and Nabokov (on his best portraits)?
Both of them were born is St Petersburg within 6 years time, both families
fled Russia after the bolshevist coup and went to the UK, their careers
hapenned mostly in the USA...
Yesterday I was watching The son of Monte Cristo (1940) where Sanders
plays a magnificent villain General Gurko Lanen, and memories of Zembla,
Desperation, Invitation to  BEHEADING, Pale fire and Ada kept coming into
my head. I have searched the archives and just found a mention to Sanders
as DeWitt, the theatre critic in Eva. Even that name sounds a bit
nabokovian (too obvious perhaps).
The biography of Mr Sanders in itself a novel till his death (suicide) in
a small seaside spanish hotel back in 1972.

 

Dr. José J. Bermúdez