Maurice Couturier's “Down the Line with a Smile: What to Do with my Books?”
Maurice Couturier, Nabokov scholar, writer, translator and President of Honour of the Société Française Vladimir Nabokov, ponders the fate of his collection of Nabokoviana:
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Maurice Couturier writes letter to Le Monde
Maurice Couturier, president of honour of the Société Française Vladimir Nabokov, has written a letter to Le Monde on the subject of Nabokov's absence from its list of 100 novels that have excited its critics since 1944. The letter is pasted below:
Un surprenant absent parmi les « 100 meilleurs romans du Monde »
Maurice Couturier
Traducteur et spécialiste de Nabokov, éditeur de ses romans dans la
Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, je m’étonne de ne pas trouver Lolita ou Ada
dans votre classement des 100 romans qui ont « le plus enthousiasmé »
vos critiques depuis 1944, ni même le nom de cet auteur dans la liste
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