Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011860, Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:46:13 -0700

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Dear Suellen,

Thank you for your reply. I look forward to reading the article and having
an intelligent discussion about it and its possible implications.

Carolyn

> From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
> Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:23:35 -0700
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Centerwall etc...
>
> Carolyn,
>
> I shall look for the article and see if I can post it to the list.
> While we don't know if Centerwall has called Nabokov a pedophile,
> we do know that Jo Morgan has. Still, of course, that does not make
> her claim that Nabokov had been molested as a child untrue. I agree
> that Nabokov does have a high degree of sensitivity to the pain of
> children subjected to abuse by adults, but couching the argument in
> terms of "closet child advocate" (this quote may be innacurate it's
> what I remember of a now deleted JM message) again belies an agenda
> that undermines the credibility of the point. (Which of course
> doesn't mean it's still not true:>))
>
> ---Suellen

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