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From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@aetern.us>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> Hello, Christoph Heuke - and List,
>
> Why were you disturbed to be reminded of Lolita while reading
Highsmith
> and realizing that VN´s book was the more recent one? I think that even
if
> VN had been inspired in PH´s book it wouldn´t affect Lolita´s originality.
> Today I was telling my grand-children the Red-Riding Hood story and
> realized that the bad wolf´s tactics to eat the grandmother first so as to
> better enjoy Rottkäpchen as dessert had also something of Lolita!
Picasso
> painted more than thirty variations on Vélazques´ " Las Meninas".
> For those who enjoy reading Latin American authors, there is a
wonderful
> text by Jorge Luís Borges on " copying another author": " Pierre
Ménard".
> Jansy
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:51 PM
> Subject: Fw: Patricia Highsmith and Lolita's road trip
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>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Christoph Heuke" <c_heuke@hotmail.com>
> > >
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> > > Odd to think of Quilty as a sinister detective? Well, Humbert himself
> had
> > > "surmised" this (II, 18).
> > >
> > > I for myself, having read Highsmith's novel a couple of years ago,
> > remember
> > > that I was strongly reminded of "Lolita", too - and disturbed when I
> > learned
> > > that Nabokov's book was the younger one. Not enough to base a theory
on,
> > of
> > > course (at least for an amateur Nabokophile like me).
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Christoph Heuke
> > > Wiesbaden, Germany
> > >
> > > _________________________________________________________________
> > > E-Mails sind Ihnen nicht schnell genug? http://messenger.msn.de MSN
> > > Messenger - Kommunikation in Echtzeit
> > >
> >
> >
>
From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@aetern.us>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (50
lines) ------------------
> Hello, Christoph Heuke - and List,
>
> Why were you disturbed to be reminded of Lolita while reading
Highsmith
> and realizing that VN´s book was the more recent one? I think that even
if
> VN had been inspired in PH´s book it wouldn´t affect Lolita´s originality.
> Today I was telling my grand-children the Red-Riding Hood story and
> realized that the bad wolf´s tactics to eat the grandmother first so as to
> better enjoy Rottkäpchen as dessert had also something of Lolita!
Picasso
> painted more than thirty variations on Vélazques´ " Las Meninas".
> For those who enjoy reading Latin American authors, there is a
wonderful
> text by Jorge Luís Borges on " copying another author": " Pierre
Ménard".
> Jansy
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:51 PM
> Subject: Fw: Patricia Highsmith and Lolita's road trip
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Christoph Heuke" <c_heuke@hotmail.com>
> > >
> > > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (17
> > lines) ------------------
> > > Odd to think of Quilty as a sinister detective? Well, Humbert himself
> had
> > > "surmised" this (II, 18).
> > >
> > > I for myself, having read Highsmith's novel a couple of years ago,
> > remember
> > > that I was strongly reminded of "Lolita", too - and disturbed when I
> > learned
> > > that Nabokov's book was the younger one. Not enough to base a theory
on,
> > of
> > > course (at least for an amateur Nabokophile like me).
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Christoph Heuke
> > > Wiesbaden, Germany
> > >
> > > _________________________________________________________________
> > > E-Mails sind Ihnen nicht schnell genug? http://messenger.msn.de MSN
> > > Messenger - Kommunikation in Echtzeit
> > >
> >
> >
>