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LOLITA (novel) & Censorship (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. In response to my comment
" AS may be seen, WWW pieces do not come out tidily on formatless E-mail.
> None the less, the information is extractable. Checking out the WWW
> address just below is the best solution.
> "http://fileroom.aaup.uic.edu/FileRoom/documents/Cases/267lolita.html">
Brian Gross <briang@dingo.sr.hp.com> supplies
the information below. I, for one, am pasting it over my computer.
NABOKV-L thanks Brian once again.
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[snip]
I hope I am not straying too far from the NABOKV-L charter; I hope this
information will make communication between Nabokovians a little easier.
One way to obtain a text-only version of a web page is to save the page using
a "save as" function. Using Netscape select the pull-down menu choices "File"
and "Save As". When the "Save As" window pops up, choose "Text" as the
"Format for Saved Document" and enter a file name for the text document. The
text document will be stored under the file name selected.
The resultant text document can then be retrieved into a text-only email program
with results similar to these:
Nabokov 's "Lolita"
* Date: 1951 - 1975
* Location: Europe & South America & Australasia
* Subject: Sexuality & Religious
* Medium: Literature
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* Artist/Author/Producer: Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977)
* Confronting Bodies: U.S. Customs Office, French State, Argentinean
State, New Zealand State.
* Dates of action: 1955+
* Location: U.S., France, Argentina, New Zealand
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Description of the Art Work
"Lolita", 1955: Novel with anti-hero, Humbert Humbert, who is possessed
by an overpowering desire for very young girls. One of Nabokov
allegories: love, examined in the light of its seeming opposite,
lechery.
Description of incident
1955 : Nabokov completed "Lolita" in 1954, but could not find a
publisher. Olympia press issued it in Paris and it was held Admissible
by the U.S. Customs, but not by the British.
Results of incident
1956 France-Paris: Banned as obscene. U.S. Customs pronounced the book
unobjectionable. "Lolita" thus could not be legally exported from
France, but smuggled copies could be legally imported into the U.S.
1959 Argentina-Buenos Aires: The court said that "Lolita" was not
banned because of crude passages, but because of the whole work
reflected moral disintegration and reviled humanity.
1960 New Zealand: Banned by the Supreme Court.
1955 United States: Graham Greene's praise of "Lolita" set off a long
controversy.
1956 United States: Publishers thought the book unworthy of
publication, but it came abridged in a magazine, Anchor Review 2.
1958 U.S.A.: The book was finally published by Putnam.
1959 England: Freely published.
1959 France: Ban lifted.
1962 Argentina-Buenos Aires: the ban was again upheld.
Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and
Chandler B. Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.
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Brian P. Gross, P.E. ___ email: briang@sr.hp.com
Design Engineer / / b.gross@ieee.org
Custom Systems Engineering HEWLETT /hp/ PACKARD phone: (707) 577-3741
Santa Rosa Systems Division /__/ FAX: (707) 577-2887
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" AS may be seen, WWW pieces do not come out tidily on formatless E-mail.
> None the less, the information is extractable. Checking out the WWW
> address just below is the best solution.
> "http://fileroom.aaup.uic.edu/FileRoom/documents/Cases/267lolita.html">
Brian Gross <briang@dingo.sr.hp.com> supplies
the information below. I, for one, am pasting it over my computer.
NABOKV-L thanks Brian once again.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
[snip]
I hope I am not straying too far from the NABOKV-L charter; I hope this
information will make communication between Nabokovians a little easier.
One way to obtain a text-only version of a web page is to save the page using
a "save as" function. Using Netscape select the pull-down menu choices "File"
and "Save As". When the "Save As" window pops up, choose "Text" as the
"Format for Saved Document" and enter a file name for the text document. The
text document will be stored under the file name selected.
The resultant text document can then be retrieved into a text-only email program
with results similar to these:
Nabokov 's "Lolita"
* Date: 1951 - 1975
* Location: Europe & South America & Australasia
* Subject: Sexuality & Religious
* Medium: Literature
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Artist/Author/Producer: Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977)
* Confronting Bodies: U.S. Customs Office, French State, Argentinean
State, New Zealand State.
* Dates of action: 1955+
* Location: U.S., France, Argentina, New Zealand
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Description of the Art Work
"Lolita", 1955: Novel with anti-hero, Humbert Humbert, who is possessed
by an overpowering desire for very young girls. One of Nabokov
allegories: love, examined in the light of its seeming opposite,
lechery.
Description of incident
1955 : Nabokov completed "Lolita" in 1954, but could not find a
publisher. Olympia press issued it in Paris and it was held Admissible
by the U.S. Customs, but not by the British.
Results of incident
1956 France-Paris: Banned as obscene. U.S. Customs pronounced the book
unobjectionable. "Lolita" thus could not be legally exported from
France, but smuggled copies could be legally imported into the U.S.
1959 Argentina-Buenos Aires: The court said that "Lolita" was not
banned because of crude passages, but because of the whole work
reflected moral disintegration and reviled humanity.
1960 New Zealand: Banned by the Supreme Court.
1955 United States: Graham Greene's praise of "Lolita" set off a long
controversy.
1956 United States: Publishers thought the book unworthy of
publication, but it came abridged in a magazine, Anchor Review 2.
1958 U.S.A.: The book was finally published by Putnam.
1959 England: Freely published.
1959 France: Ban lifted.
1962 Argentina-Buenos Aires: the ban was again upheld.
Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and
Chandler B. Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.
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Go to main categories
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Record no 267
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=========================================================================
Brian P. Gross, P.E. ___ email: briang@sr.hp.com
Design Engineer / / b.gross@ieee.org
Custom Systems Engineering HEWLETT /hp/ PACKARD phone: (707) 577-3741
Santa Rosa Systems Division /__/ FAX: (707) 577-2887
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