Dear List,
I found an interesting essay on "Lolita is
Now Fifty " with references to the Luzhin Defense and Pale
Fire in Mario Vargas Llosa´s 2003 book " La verdad de las
mentiras" which carries a collection of his articles.
There is also a Nabopopian reference by Julian
Barnes in his novel "Talking it Over" (ed Picador,
1991): " "Main thing to say is, I won´t put up with slander on my
wife. My present wife. I didn´t 'seduce' her, she didn´t do a Lolita
act on me. We met ( out of school as it happens), and bang, that was
that".
In a magazine about Literature, focusing on Russian
authors, there is a reference to Nabokov via Gabriel García Márquez in a review
about his recent book "Memória de minhas putas tristes" where an
untouched sleeping girl serves as a metaphor of "contained desires" or "a
parallel bt. youth and old age".(Cf.www.revistaentrelivros.com.br)
"Entrelivros,Ano I,no.4,2005) where there is a picture of VN with the words:
"Vladimir Nabokov, whose novel 'Lolita' influenced García Márquez".
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picture added as an attachment )
Jansy