[EDNote: I collected the answer to this question before posting the question; Yuri Leving replies below, and adds his own contributions. ~SB]

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:07:18 +0100

From: UDITH HARITHA DEMATAGODA <u.dematagoda.1@research.gla.ac.uk>

To: nabokv-l@utk.edu <nabokv-l@utk.edu>, nabokv-l@holycross.edu <nabokv-l@holycross.edu>
Dear List,

Could someone tell me what the Piano piece which is featured on the NOJ loading page is? It was also on the film version of the Piano Teacher by Michael Hanneke, but I can't seem to find out what it is!

best wishes,

Udith Dematagoda

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:07:18 +0100
From:	UDITH HARITHA DEMATAGODA <u.dematagoda.1@research.gla.ac.uk>
To:	nabokv-l@utk.edu <nabokv-l@utk.edu>, nabokv-l@holycross.edu <nabokv-l@holycross.edu>

Subject:	Re: question re NOJ
Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:13:42 -0300
From:	Yuri Leving <yleving@gmail.com>
To:	Nabokv-L <nabokv-l@utk.edu>
References:	<4E31DACD.8040809@utk.edu>

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Dear Udith,

The web designer tells me that the piano piece is by Rachmaninoff, specifically chosen because the composer was Nabokov's aficionado.

The list has discussed Lila Azam Zanganeh's new book, but it looks like the para-Nabokoviana genre becomes trendy: "The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov" by Paul Russell is coming soon:

http://www.fictiondb.com/author/paul-russell~the-unreal-life-of-sergey-nabokov~295304~b.htm

(From the book description: "...it is the honesty and vulnerability of Sergey, our young gay narrator, that hook the reader: his stuttering childhood in the shadow of his brilliant brother, his opium-fueled evenings with his sometime lover Cocteau, his troubled love life on the margins of the Ballets Russes and its legendary cast")

Also Leslie Daniel's novel, "Cleaning Nabokov's House," just came out in Russian translation. Review: http://www.openspace.ru/literature/events/details/23092/

The NPR item about the book: "A 39-year-old divorcee rebuilding her life finds herself living in a house once occupied by a famous author. So begins the novel, 'Cleaning Nabokov's House' by Leslie Daniels."

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/14/134543660/Review-Cleaning-Nabokovs-House

Best wishes,

Yuri Leving

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