Gavriel Shapiro: "Jansy Mello
erroneously attributes the sentence "In spite of being labeled a post-modern by
a majority of analysts, Nabokov preferred the era of the Great Masters. Like
Proust, he never erased from his interior canvas Botticelli, El Greco, Rembrandt, Jan Van
Eyck..." to me, whereas it belongs
to Daniel Piza and appears in his review of my book.
On the other hand, for Botticelli-related references and allusions in
Lolita, see The Sublime Artist's Studio, 46-47."
Jansy Mello: Thank you for the
correction of my false attribution of Daniel Piza's sentence to you.
Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of your book (One of my
handicaps...) and I wonder if you could share the Botticelli-related
allusions in "Lolita," with the List and me.
(The young critic Daniel Piza died
last December from a cerebral hemorrage).