Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001840, Tue, 18 Mar 1997 08:23:03 -0800

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Lyne's _Lolita_ mentioned in Vogue (fwd)
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In "Highbrow and Hardcore," an article tracing the new "Perversion Chic"
in movies and novels in the March _Vogue_ (454), John Powers
discusses how Lyne's _Lolita_ as "sure to shock" compared to Kubrick's
version. Grouped with such films as _Crash_ and _Thieves_, it's nice to see
that _Lolita_ remains on the cutting edge of fin de siecle decadent
aesthetics. As Powers writes: "Mere sex is out, transgression is in."


Roy Flannagan
Francis Marion University