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Nabokov's portrait (appearance in Messud's The Emperor's Children)
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DN's recent post prompts me to mention that Claire Messud's novel The
Emperor's Children -- the book waiting on my bedside table at the moment
-- features a man who is described, when he first appears, as having "a
high, smooth Nabokovian brow" (p. 5), and later, again, as having a
"pale, oval, Nabokovian" face (p. 156). So far he's one of the most
interesting characters in the book.
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Emperor's Children -- the book waiting on my bedside table at the moment
-- features a man who is described, when he first appears, as having "a
high, smooth Nabokovian brow" (p. 5), and later, again, as having a
"pale, oval, Nabokovian" face (p. 156). So far he's one of the most
interesting characters in the book.
SES
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm