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Re: Nabokov "Film" request (fwd)
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In a message dated 7/19/99 11:58:45 PM EDT, chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu writes:
> Despair was available for a while years ago on VHS.
>
As was King Queen Knave. There is also the really odd Christopher Plummer
dramatization of "Nabokov on Kafka." It doesn't work at all, in my opinion
(the principal questions it arouses being: why has Plummer memorized a text
that Nabokov would have read and why is he "acting" it?) but it is good to
hear the words spoken by Plummer.
Christopher Berg
Tentender@aol.com
> Despair was available for a while years ago on VHS.
>
As was King Queen Knave. There is also the really odd Christopher Plummer
dramatization of "Nabokov on Kafka." It doesn't work at all, in my opinion
(the principal questions it arouses being: why has Plummer memorized a text
that Nabokov would have read and why is he "acting" it?) but it is good to
hear the words spoken by Plummer.
Christopher Berg
Tentender@aol.com