Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0005418, Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:37:17 -0700

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> a propos of the discussion about cinematizing pale fire, on page 395 of
Kurt
> Anderson's very funny, very sophisticated but perhaps somewhat
unchallenging
> formally novel, Turn of the century, there is a reference to Nabokov and
Bill
> Gaddis to the effect that one of characters of the novel a billionaire but
> qurky stock manipulator named Ben Gould has secretly been buying out the
> movie rights to their fiction with the intent of holding them in
perpetuity
> so that no cineastic sacrilege can take place. Not a bad idea.
> herb smith