Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0000604, Tue, 23 May 1995 11:22:10 -0700

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VN in France
Date
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EDITOR'S NOTE:
=09Maurice Couturier, the leading French Nabokov specialist--author=20
of two monographs on VN, organizer of the 1992 and 1995 Nabokov=20
Conferences in Nice, and chief editor of the Pleiade edition of=20
Nabokov's work, passes on the following item.
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=09This year _Lolita_ is on the syllabus of the "agr=E9gation
d'anglais" and _Despair_ on that of the "agr=E9gation de lettres modernes."=
=20
It is wonderful news for me who was once forbidden to teach _Lolita_ at the
Sorbonne because "ca pourrait choquer les jeunes filles."=20

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Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis
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