Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0016894, Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:41:28 -0400

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Re: borrowed from Vladimir Nabokov¹s Loli ta ...
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Well said, SKB. Let me add that you can find concrete dinosaurs not quite in
the middle of, but certainly at the edge of, the desert outside of Los
Angeles. Is California quirky? You bet. As SKB suggests, with polite
restraint, given the plot of Lulu, Ada would probably be a more likely
intertext. I’ll bet anyone a Euro that the reviewer hasn’t read Ada. And
the reviewer’s bald statement that “Humbert Humbert narrates Lolita out of
deepest shame for what he did to an innocent girl “ is certainly open to
debate. I haven’t read Evison’s novel, but I certainly wouldn’t let this
superficial review dissuade me from cracking it open up!



David Powelstock



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Am I alone in finding this review unsatisfactory?





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