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DN on Amy Tan and Alice Homes
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EDITOR's NOTE. In re comments on VN & LOLITA by the above writers
(previousy quoted on NABOKV-L), DN writes:
"Amy Tan says some nice things about LOLITA and, I guess, Nabokov. But if
she is going to call him names and cite his 'very nastiness' as a given,
her first choice of survival book should be not "How to Get Off a Desert
Island" but "How to Get Off a Desert Island Whose Sole Inhabitant is DN."
Or, better still, she might listen to Alfred Appel, in a recent Siecle
d'Ecrivains documentary, describing V. Nabokov as the funniest and most
congenial person he ever met. What, by the way, is 'an intellectual
elitist'?"
"Besides Mme. Homes, a girl far more attractive than her book, there was a
full-fledged, enormously boring plagarized version "From Lolita's
Viewpoint" without that or other redeeming considerations, dropped by
Plon, Knopf et al. because of blatant copyright infringement."
(previousy quoted on NABOKV-L), DN writes:
"Amy Tan says some nice things about LOLITA and, I guess, Nabokov. But if
she is going to call him names and cite his 'very nastiness' as a given,
her first choice of survival book should be not "How to Get Off a Desert
Island" but "How to Get Off a Desert Island Whose Sole Inhabitant is DN."
Or, better still, she might listen to Alfred Appel, in a recent Siecle
d'Ecrivains documentary, describing V. Nabokov as the funniest and most
congenial person he ever met. What, by the way, is 'an intellectual
elitist'?"
"Besides Mme. Homes, a girl far more attractive than her book, there was a
full-fledged, enormously boring plagarized version "From Lolita's
Viewpoint" without that or other redeeming considerations, dropped by
Plon, Knopf et al. because of blatant copyright infringement."