Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0017156, Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:27:01 -0400

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SIGHTING: Jerzy Skolimowski
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Jansy Mello writes:

A movie review by L.Fernando Gallego Soares ( www.criticos.com.br )
brought
up Nabokov's name in relation to Jerzy Skolimowski's "QUATRO NOITES COM
ANNA
(Cztery noce z Anna)", recently released during a film festival in Rio
de
Janeiro. J.S had stopped writing scripts and directing for almost
sixteen
years. One of his partial successes in the past came from filming
Nabokov's
novel "King, Queen, Knave".

Here is an excerpt from Barbara Wyllie's ( 2005) comments:
Nabokov's second novel, Korol', Dama, Valet was published in 1928 by the

Berlin émigré publishing house, Slovo. Nearly forty years later, Nabokov

turned to the task of producing an English translation - King, Queen,
Knave - which was published in 1968. In 1972, a film version by Polish
director Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Gina Lollobrigida and David Niven,
was
nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Korol', Dama, Valet marked a distinct departure from the "destitution",
"nostalgia" and "human humidity" of Nabokov's first novel [...] Set once

again in contemporary Berlin, Korol', Dama, Valet deliberately moves
away
from what had almost immediately become, for Nabokov, the already
too-familiar milieu of Russian émigré society, to focus its attention on
the
modern Berliner[ ...].

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