Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0026249, Sat, 27 Jun 2015 20:50:44 -0400

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VN sighting: "Vladimir Nabokov, who said he called him Lewis Carroll Carroll because he was“the first Humbert Humbert”"
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"But like the existentially unstable characters who were to be created in
the 20th century by those who claimed Carroll as a forebear — writers like
André Breton, Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov, who said he called
him Lewis Carroll Carroll <http://www.jstor.org/stable/441056?seq=1> because
he was “the first Humbert Humbert” — Carroll is usually just out of focus
in the immense forest of biographical documents that surround him. In the
Morgan’s exhibition, which includes the July 4, 1862, journal entry in
which Carroll first mentions the fateful “expedition up the river to
Godstow with the three Liddells,” the fantastical fictional characters
often emerge seeming more real than their creator.""

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/arts/design/looking-at-the-birth-of-lewis-carrolls-alice-150-years-old.html?src=me&_r=0

ART & DESIGN <http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/design/index.html>Looking
at the Birth of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice,’ 150 Years Old

By RANDY KENNEDY
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/randy_kennedy/index.html>JUNE
25, 2015

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