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Re: Nabokov contra Bunuel, etc.... (fwd)
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From: JR <tract@voicenet.com>
At 08:56 AM 4/14/97 -0700, you wrote:
>From: Charles Nicol <EJNICOL@root.indstate.edu>
>
>Judging by the one reference I can think of--and the logic of the
>thing as well--I believe that Nabokov did NOT like Bunuel. The
>reference is a scathing but elliptical one, probably in an interview,
>about films where, among other things, beggars rape nuns; at any
>rate, it seemed a clear reference to one Bunuel film (can't remember,
>but a woman's name and Catherine Denueve?).
Viridiana (1961) starring, not Denueve, but a Spanish lookalike
actress named Silvia Pinal.
If we think of
>Bunuel's early collaboration with Dali (an obvious Nabokov dislike)
>as well as his politics, we shouldn't expect anything different.
A good point, though Bunuel and Dali vehemently parted ways in the
1930s.
Joshua Roberts
tract@voicenet.com
http://www.voicenet.com/~tract
At 08:56 AM 4/14/97 -0700, you wrote:
>From: Charles Nicol <EJNICOL@root.indstate.edu>
>
>Judging by the one reference I can think of--and the logic of the
>thing as well--I believe that Nabokov did NOT like Bunuel. The
>reference is a scathing but elliptical one, probably in an interview,
>about films where, among other things, beggars rape nuns; at any
>rate, it seemed a clear reference to one Bunuel film (can't remember,
>but a woman's name and Catherine Denueve?).
Viridiana (1961) starring, not Denueve, but a Spanish lookalike
actress named Silvia Pinal.
If we think of
>Bunuel's early collaboration with Dali (an obvious Nabokov dislike)
>as well as his politics, we shouldn't expect anything different.
A good point, though Bunuel and Dali vehemently parted ways in the
1930s.
Joshua Roberts
tract@voicenet.com
http://www.voicenet.com/~tract