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Fw: Vivian Darkblooms in LOlita and ADA notes
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From: Sergey Karpukhin
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 7:27 AM
Subject: Vivians
Just out of curiosity. Alexey Sklyarenko in his remarkable paper refers to Vivian Darkbloom (author of the ADA Notes) as to a male (in male gender in Russian: в примечаниях Вивиана Даркблума к "Аде"). I always assumed that it was what Lolita wanted Humbert to believe, but in reality Vivian was a woman. In the Russian translation of LOLITA Mrs Vivian Damor-Blok is most certainly a lady (see the suave John Ray's Foreword). Is the Vivian of ADA of different sex than the Vivian of LOLITA?
Incidentally, I am looking forward to seeing more of Alexey's evidence that ADA is a "Russian novel written in English".
Respectfully,
Sergey