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From: Carolyn Kunin
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 7:49 AM
Subject: speaking of prefaces
To the List,
I have often wondered about the name John Rae, Jr (preface Lolita). I sometimes came across the name John Rae linked to Arctic exploration, but "Jr" was never there.
I am reading Ken McGoogan's Fatal Passage: the Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot and it turns out that John Rae was the son of "John Rae, Sr," and so, though never referred to that way, he really was John Rae, Jr.
Other names linked to Arctic exploration occasionally turn up in Nabokov's work (Amundsen in Ada, for example) and I think I that there is a play about Scott? or am I dreaming?
Carolyn
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EDNOTE. But LO's presenter is John RAY, Jr. PhD, not John
RAE. The Scott play is "The Pole" available in English translated by DN with a very nice preface. The play was performed in Berlin a few years back.
----- Original Message -----
From: Carolyn Kunin
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 7:49 AM
Subject: speaking of prefaces
To the List,
I have often wondered about the name John Rae, Jr (preface Lolita). I sometimes came across the name John Rae linked to Arctic exploration, but "Jr" was never there.
I am reading Ken McGoogan's Fatal Passage: the Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot and it turns out that John Rae was the son of "John Rae, Sr," and so, though never referred to that way, he really was John Rae, Jr.
Other names linked to Arctic exploration occasionally turn up in Nabokov's work (Amundsen in Ada, for example) and I think I that there is a play about Scott? or am I dreaming?
Carolyn
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EDNOTE. But LO's presenter is John RAY, Jr. PhD, not John
RAE. The Scott play is "The Pole" available in English translated by DN with a very nice preface. The play was performed in Berlin a few years back.