I just taught Despair, and I'm 99.9% sure that line does not appear in it. (In the English, that is.)

Cheers,
David P.

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Nabokv-L <nabokv-l@utk.edu> wrote:

Subject:
QUERY: "
From:
Juan Martinez <fulmerford@gmail.com>
Date:
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:12:34 -0700
To:
Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>

Dear List,

This question regards a very old thread: "All the information I have about myself is from forged documents." 

I'm pretty sure that this line, attributed to Nabokov in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, comes from the Stoppard/Fassbinder film adaptation of Despair and not from the novel itself.  Am I right? Or did I completely miss it or otherwise managed to forget it? It's been a few years since I've read Despair.

Best,

Juan
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Juan Martinez
-- http://fulmerford.com

EDNote: I've read Despair pretty closely several times in both languages, and I have no memory of this line there. ~SB
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