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Re: fritillaries
----- Original Message -----
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
To: naboKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 5:56 PM
Subject: Fw: fritillaries
I´ve always been amazed at the frequency with which the names Vladimir Nabokov and Lolita pop up in the media. It seems that VN became a daily presence all over the globe.
I wonder if the "Lolita lights" ( by Swarovski´s ) have been inspired in VN´s book: there are many Lolitas who might not even have heard of "ours". I remember an American/Caribean song of the early sixties crying "Lola, Lolita" in a refrain and from what I vaguely remember of it, there´s no direct reference to VN in it.
But here is a VN sighting which I tried to translate from the Portuguese text:
" It´s cold. Vladimir Nabokov sits in a park at the margin of the Oredej river, underneath a beech tree from where he can see a lilac bush covered by flitting fritillaria with pearly borders on their blue wings. The light of the sunset floats on the gray water. Vladimir Nabokov sighs. He dips his pen in the ink bottle and writes the story of the love between two children".
"Tormentos Ocasionais", Bernadette Lyra.
Ed. Companhia das Letras, 1998.
Best,
Jansy
----- Original Message -----
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello
To: naboKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 5:56 PM
Subject: Fw: fritillaries
I´ve always been amazed at the frequency with which the names Vladimir Nabokov and Lolita pop up in the media. It seems that VN became a daily presence all over the globe.
I wonder if the "Lolita lights" ( by Swarovski´s ) have been inspired in VN´s book: there are many Lolitas who might not even have heard of "ours". I remember an American/Caribean song of the early sixties crying "Lola, Lolita" in a refrain and from what I vaguely remember of it, there´s no direct reference to VN in it.
But here is a VN sighting which I tried to translate from the Portuguese text:
" It´s cold. Vladimir Nabokov sits in a park at the margin of the Oredej river, underneath a beech tree from where he can see a lilac bush covered by flitting fritillaria with pearly borders on their blue wings. The light of the sunset floats on the gray water. Vladimir Nabokov sighs. He dips his pen in the ink bottle and writes the story of the love between two children".
"Tormentos Ocasionais", Bernadette Lyra.
Ed. Companhia das Letras, 1998.
Best,
Jansy