Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011721, Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:27:43 -0700

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EDNOTE. Sam Schuman is one of the founding members of the Vladimir Nabokov
Society.
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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:10:05 -0500
From: sam schuman <schumans@morris.umn.edu>
Reply-To: sam schuman <schumans@morris.umn.edu>
Subject: My first time with LOLITA
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum

Like many another adolescent in the late 1950's my first time with
Lolita was a major disappointment: I was looking for a dirty book,
and only found a great one. My first serious encounter with the
novel came some years later, when I was teaching freshman composition
at Northwestern University, under the directorship of Alfred Appel.
My wife and young children and I spent a summer in Yorkshire, at the
home of another Northwestern colleague, and I picked up The Annotated
Lolita because I was curious about the scholarship of my supervisor.
A few days later, I finished the book, dashed to the local bookshop,
and purchased everything by Nabokov they had for sale.
--
Sam

Samuel Schuman
Chancellor
The University of Minnesota, Morris
Morris, MN 56267
schumans@morris.umn.edu
320-589-6020

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