James Twiggs: Eds. This goes back a few months, but my search turned up no mention of it on the List.Roger Boylan on Nabokov and Banville. A search of Boylan's blog will turn up several other pieces on VN. http://www.rogerboylan.com/the-snug/banville-the-new-nabokov
 
JM: The article about "Unquenchable Russia" that reached me today through a google-alert note was already brought up in Feb.2010, by Sandy Klein. While I was checking some items I found another old reference and it opened into all sorts of exciting youtube videos with Nabokov wandering about with a butterfly net, or speaking in French in the Pivot interview. Parts of Fassbinder's "Despair" were equally available. I'll paste here the initial announcement. The best way to reach the collection of youtubes is, indirectly, by opening the first production ( El Señor Nabokov on French Television").  I hope it works.
I cannot remember if, in Despair, there are chocolate mannikins on show but, in the movie-bit, we find them rolling away under Dirk Bogarde's eyes...
 

June 27, 2007

Loli-Goth

Lolita_gothEl Señor Nabokov on French Television with Spanish subtitles. (From Achtung Baby!)

How to Be a Gothic Lolita. Gothic Lolita or "GothLoli" (ゴスロリ, gosurori) is a subcategory of the Lolita fashion, a street fashion among Japanese female teenagers

Christopher Plummer as Nabokov lecturing on Kafka’s Metamorphosis (1989)

Forget Lolita - let's hear it for lepidoptery

The tale: an ape in a zoo is taught how to draw. The first thing it draws is the bars of its cage. I've heard this story a couple of times (often in connection with Vladimir Nabokov), but can't find any information about the original experiment. Did this actually happen? Is it just a fable? Did Nabokov get Punk'd? Who was this ape and where can I find out more?

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