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Dear Stephen,
One of the first responses to Lolita from this side of the Iron Curtain:
"Lolita, or Stavrogin and Beatrice" (1962; text in Russian: http://spintongues.msk.ru/lem.htm), by the famous Polish sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem (1921-2007). I quickly scanned the article. The author speaks more of Svidrigailov, a character in "Crime and Punishment," than of Stavrogin, with whom he seems to confuse Svidrigailov at one point.
I also remember Dolinin comparing Humbert to Stavrogin in his lectures and using the case of Matryosha as an argument in support of his theory that Lolita dies in the Elphinstone hospital and what follows, the rest of the story, happens only in Humbert's imagination. I don't know if Dolinin published his material anywhere.
Alexey Sklyarenko
p. s. In my previous post, when speaking of the name Yuri, I forgot to mention Baron Yuri Rausch von Traubenberg, Nabokov's cousin and best friend. Also, the second of the two "ors" in it should be "gold."
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One of the first responses to Lolita from this side of the Iron Curtain:
"Lolita, or Stavrogin and Beatrice" (1962; text in Russian: http://spintongues.msk.ru/lem.htm), by the famous Polish sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem (1921-2007). I quickly scanned the article. The author speaks more of Svidrigailov, a character in "Crime and Punishment," than of Stavrogin, with whom he seems to confuse Svidrigailov at one point.
I also remember Dolinin comparing Humbert to Stavrogin in his lectures and using the case of Matryosha as an argument in support of his theory that Lolita dies in the Elphinstone hospital and what follows, the rest of the story, happens only in Humbert's imagination. I don't know if Dolinin published his material anywhere.
Alexey Sklyarenko
p. s. In my previous post, when speaking of the name Yuri, I forgot to mention Baron Yuri Rausch von Traubenberg, Nabokov's cousin and best friend. Also, the second of the two "ors" in it should be "gold."
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