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EDNOTE. Maurice Couturier is a distinguished scholar, translator, editor, and novelist. He has published three books on VN: NABOKOV (Lausanne: l'Age d'homme, 1979); NABOKOV ou la tyrannie de l'auteur (Paris: Seuil, 1993) and LA FIGURE DE AUTEUR (Paris: Seuil, 1995). (The last deals only in part with VN).
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From: Maurice Couturier
Here is a brief notice of my current work on Nabokov: I have just finished a thickish book in French, entitled La cruauté du désir: lecture psychanalyique de Nabokov, a Lacanian study of the novels which remains very close to the texts and never tries to deal with the author himself. Yet I can hear Nabokov's grumblings from here. It is while translating Lolita that I felt the necessity to write this book. I think it offers new perspectives, never mentioned so far, but of course I am a bad judge. I'd be grateful if someone there could suggest the name of an American publisher willing to bring out this book in English.
The Pléiade edition of the Nabokov's novels, of which I am the chief editor, is back on track. Gallimard took the decision only weeks ago. Volume 2 ought to come out in 2005. It will contain the following works:
The Gift, The Enchanter, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Lolita, plus Speak, Memory.
I am currently writing a novel staged in the US.
That's all for now.
----- Original Message -----
From: Maurice Couturier
Here is a brief notice of my current work on Nabokov: I have just finished a thickish book in French, entitled La cruauté du désir: lecture psychanalyique de Nabokov, a Lacanian study of the novels which remains very close to the texts and never tries to deal with the author himself. Yet I can hear Nabokov's grumblings from here. It is while translating Lolita that I felt the necessity to write this book. I think it offers new perspectives, never mentioned so far, but of course I am a bad judge. I'd be grateful if someone there could suggest the name of an American publisher willing to bring out this book in English.
The Pléiade edition of the Nabokov's novels, of which I am the chief editor, is back on track. Gallimard took the decision only weeks ago. Volume 2 ought to come out in 2005. It will contain the following works:
The Gift, The Enchanter, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Lolita, plus Speak, Memory.
I am currently writing a novel staged in the US.
That's all for now.