NABOKV-L post 0011662, Tue, 9 Aug 2005 16:50:05 -0700

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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 19:09:16 -0300
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
Reply-To: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
Subject: Fw: August Five: Julian Barnes, Vargas Llosa and García Márquez.
J-3/August
To: chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu

Dear List,

I found an interesting essay on "Lolita is Now Fifty " with references to the
Luzhin Defense and Pale Fire in Mario Vargas Llosa´s 2003 book " La verdad de
las mentiras" which carries a collection of his articles.

There is also a Nabopopian reference by Julian Barnes in his novel "Talking it
Over" (ed Picador, 1991): " "Main thing to say is, I won´t put up with slander
on my wife. My present wife. I didn´t 'seduce' her, she didn´t do a Lolita
act on me. We met ( out of school as it happens), and bang, that was that".

In a magazine about Literature, focusing on Russian authors, there is a
reference to Nabokov via Gabriel García Márquez in a review about his recent
book "Memória de minhas putas tristes" where an untouched sleeping girl
serves as a metaphor of "contained desires" or "a parallel bt. youth and old
age".(Cf.www.revistaentrelivros.com.br) "Entrelivros,Ano I,no.4,2005) where
there is a picture of VN with the words: "Vladimir Nabokov, whose novel
'Lolita' influenced García Márquez".
( picture added as an attachment )
Jansy

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