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Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:54 AM
Subject: phillip Kerr and vn
Your remark re British thriller writer Philip
Kerr reminded me that there are 2 references to VN in Kerr's A 5-Year
Plan,. On pg. 272 of the Pocket pb Nabokov is mentioned in a list of
authors on a book shelf, "Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Nabokov." And on
pg. 369 a Russian submarine shows up, with a Captain Lieutenant Eugene
Luzhin. Surely no coincidence.
Don't remember VN mentioned in 3 other Kerr novels,
The Grid, and Esau and The Shot. Can't really
recommend any of these 4 other than as pop thrillers. Have higher hopes
for The 2nd Angel, and A Philisophical
Investigation.
Darryl Schade