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EDITOR's NOTE. Juan Martinez's web-site WAXWING is well worth looking at.
-----Original Message-----
From: Juan Martinez <jmm80625@mail.ucf.edu>
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>I don't think it's going too far to call VN essential reading for any
American writer, if for nothing else than to react against him and his style
of writing (which happens). I've collected a list of quotes from authors
making explicit references to VN, found at
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>http://pigbodine.tripod.com/waxwing/nabobilia/nabobilia.html
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>Frederick Exley struck me as the most cheerfully slavish Nabokophiliac --
his _Fan's Notes_ is fixated on VN, and also on Frank Gifford. Quotes from
that novel can be found at
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>http://pigbodine.tripod.com/waxwing/nabobilia/nv11.html
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>Cheers,
>
>Juan
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>-- http://pigbodine.tripod.com
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>>>> chtodel@GTE.net 03/21/00 02:33PM >>>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Dintenfass <mldin@execpc.com>
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>>>From: "Dr. Kasumu Salawu, PE" <polyfeedback@compuserve.com>
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>>>Could someone tell me who the foremost American writers
>>>influenced by Nabokov are aside from John Updike?
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>>Not quite what one would expect, but Erica Jong's "Fear of Flying"
>>closely echoes "Lolita," especially in its opening section.
>>
>>--
>>Mark Dintenfass
>>Professor of English
>
-----Original Message-----
From: Juan Martinez <jmm80625@mail.ucf.edu>
>----------------- Message requiring your approval (34
lines) ------------------
>
>I don't think it's going too far to call VN essential reading for any
American writer, if for nothing else than to react against him and his style
of writing (which happens). I've collected a list of quotes from authors
making explicit references to VN, found at
>
>http://pigbodine.tripod.com/waxwing/nabobilia/nabobilia.html
>
>Frederick Exley struck me as the most cheerfully slavish Nabokophiliac --
his _Fan's Notes_ is fixated on VN, and also on Frank Gifford. Quotes from
that novel can be found at
>
>http://pigbodine.tripod.com/waxwing/nabobilia/nv11.html
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Juan
>
>-- http://pigbodine.tripod.com
>
>>>> chtodel@GTE.net 03/21/00 02:33PM >>>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Dintenfass <mldin@execpc.com>
>>
>>----------------- Message requiring your approval (11
>lines) ------------------
>>>From: "Dr. Kasumu Salawu, PE" <polyfeedback@compuserve.com>
>>>
>>>Could someone tell me who the foremost American writers
>>>influenced by Nabokov are aside from John Updike?
>>
>>Not quite what one would expect, but Erica Jong's "Fear of Flying"
>>closely echoes "Lolita," especially in its opening section.
>>
>>--
>>Mark Dintenfass
>>Professor of English
>