Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0007256, Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:09:57 -0800

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Fw: James Lasdun's _The Horned Man_ & VN's _Pale Fire_
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From: Mark Bennett
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Subject: RE: James Lasdun's _The Horned Man_ & VN's _Pale Fire_


Another Guardian review of "The Horned Man", wherein the shade of Humbert Humbert is evoked for comparison.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,643795,00.html
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From: D. Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@cox.net]
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 9:40 AM
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Subject: Fw: James Lasdun's _The Horned Man_ & VN's _Pale Fire_


EDNOTE. Further info on the Lasdun book would be appreciated.

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From: Dasa Duhacek
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Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 1:44 AM
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Cheers, R. Mastilovic
Alex Clark looks back at the year's novels and finds them in rude health
Saturday December 7, 2002 The Guardian
[...] I also greatly enjoyed a trio of very different mysteries. Poet James Lasdun's first novel, The Horned Man (Cape), had its roots in Nabokov's Pale Fire, but expanded the theme of the unreliable narrator to a near-lunatic degree, weaving a tortured but highly satisfying story of academia, psychotherapy and violence.
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