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From: <Iann88@aol.com>
Subject: A New Biography of Mary MacCarthy is out and has some items on VN.
> Mostly the items on Nabokov are about MacCarthy's review of Pale Fire,
which
> Edmund Wilson and others in her circle didn't think very highly of. Also
her
> dislike of Lolita. She called the writing "sloppy" especially in the
second
> half of the book and that the characters carried around too much
symbolism.
> Good to read what contemporaries of Nabokov thought of his work.
>
> Phil Iannarelli
>
From: <Iann88@aol.com>
Subject: A New Biography of Mary MacCarthy is out and has some items on VN.
> Mostly the items on Nabokov are about MacCarthy's review of Pale Fire,
which
> Edmund Wilson and others in her circle didn't think very highly of. Also
her
> dislike of Lolita. She called the writing "sloppy" especially in the
second
> half of the book and that the characters carried around too much
symbolism.
> Good to read what contemporaries of Nabokov thought of his work.
>
> Phil Iannarelli
>