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Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 11:44 AM
Subject: Fw: other Nabokov sightings for Nabopops J-4
Don, I´m sending again the next message from
the two I posted yesterday.
Jansy
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 12:01 PM
Subject: other Nabokov sightings
Dear List,
After having chosen light reading for my vacation
at the beach of Ipanema, in Rio´s mild winter, I came across a book with six
references to Nabokov.
The title of the American edition was: "
Madame Bovary, c´est moi", selected by André Bernard, in a 2004 edition which I
read in Portuguese.
The first one was a direct quotation ( but
there was no mention of VN´s work nor does his name appear in the bibliographic
listing of "sources". Perhaps Mr. Bernard has not yet read VN )
:
[Characters are] the private museum of
stuffed people that every thankful author keeps somewhere in his lodgings"
( I could not find the original to quote or refer to it
directly) .
The second appeared in a reference to Truman
Capote: " Capote was sued by a woman named Golightly; Capote ignored it and
added that she seemed too old and ridiculous, it was like Joan
Crawford deciding she was the model for "Lolita" .
The third one is a rather long and authoritative
(?) description of Nabokov´s novel "Lolita". An excerpt: " Nabokov
destroyed the manuscript byt several years later he returned to the same theme
and worked on a novel where the young girl was called Juanita Dark. In 1954 he
had finished the novel - at that time it was named The Kingdom by the Sea - and
tried to find an editor"...
The fourth is a caption inside a square with the
title:
A Character that has the same name and surname:
Humbert Humbert ( Lolita )
In the fifth he is discussing Randal Patrick
McMurphy, in the 1962 book ( One Flew over the Cuckoo´s
Nest):
"He tried to create a character that would be
as memorable as Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye or like Humbert Humbert
in Lolita, someone who jumped out of the pages to glare at the
reader" .
The sixth comes inside a square with the list
of "eponymous titles" such as Rebecca, Justine, Martin
Chuzzlewit... Lolita...
Wherever I go I come across some kind
of haunting reference to VN!
Jansy