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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Brown" <as-brown@comcast.net>
> Actually, the story line of The Price of Salt, as described by the
> cliche-entangled Terry Castle, sounds as if it might more likely have been
> an influence inspiring the very good film Thelma and Louise. I don't want
to
> sound like a blind Nabokov worshipper, but he really had written quite a
few
> novels before Lolita, and he seems to have been pretty well capable of
> finding his material in his own imagination, amazing as that may seem to
> many writers today. The idea of two people, however matched, setting out
> across the territory either to escape something or seek something is
> timeless.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:16 PM
> Subject: Fw: Re:The Price of Salt
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "D.K.Holm" <dholm@cinemonkey.com>
> > >
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> > > I saw a copy of Patricia Highsmith's formerly pseudonymous novel in a
> > store the other day. The cover announces it as "the book that inspired
> > Lolita."
> > >
> > > DKH
> > --------------------------------
> > Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated
> > Nabokov's Lolita.
> > "I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and
modeled
> > the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol's
> > frenzied bid for freedom," writes Terry Castle in The New Republic about
> > this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in
1952
> > under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. Soon to be a new film, The Price of
Salt
> > tells the riveting story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in
a
> > department-store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of
> > Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce.
> They
> > fall in love and set out across the United States, pursued by a private
> > investigator who eventually blackmails Carol into a choice between her
> > daughter and her lover. With this reissue, The Price of Salt may finally
> be
> > recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel.
> > >
>
From: "Andrew Brown" <as-brown@comcast.net>
> Actually, the story line of The Price of Salt, as described by the
> cliche-entangled Terry Castle, sounds as if it might more likely have been
> an influence inspiring the very good film Thelma and Louise. I don't want
to
> sound like a blind Nabokov worshipper, but he really had written quite a
few
> novels before Lolita, and he seems to have been pretty well capable of
> finding his material in his own imagination, amazing as that may seem to
> many writers today. The idea of two people, however matched, setting out
> across the territory either to escape something or seek something is
> timeless.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:16 PM
> Subject: Fw: Re:The Price of Salt
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "D.K.Holm" <dholm@cinemonkey.com>
> > >
> > > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (6
> > lines) -------------------
> > > I saw a copy of Patricia Highsmith's formerly pseudonymous novel in a
> > store the other day. The cover announces it as "the book that inspired
> > Lolita."
> > >
> > > DKH
> > --------------------------------
> > Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated
> > Nabokov's Lolita.
> > "I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and
modeled
> > the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol's
> > frenzied bid for freedom," writes Terry Castle in The New Republic about
> > this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in
1952
> > under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. Soon to be a new film, The Price of
Salt
> > tells the riveting story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in
a
> > department-store day job, whose salvation arrives one day in the form of
> > Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce.
> They
> > fall in love and set out across the United States, pursued by a private
> > investigator who eventually blackmails Carol into a choice between her
> > daughter and her lover. With this reissue, The Price of Salt may finally
> be
> > recognized as a major twentieth-century American novel.
> > >
>