He discusses this in "On a Book Entitled Lolita".
Anthony Stadlen
In a message dated 25/05/2012 02:54:46 GMT Daylight Time,
NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU writes:
Dear Jansy,
it seems to me that Nabokov might mean merely that the
idea of an Atheist dying happily
in his own bed is "against all rules" (for
an Amercian novel) - he discusses this himself
somewhere -doesn't
he?
And Pushkin means simply that he doesn't believe in happinness as
others do not believe in God
(in his time, shortly after French Revolution,
the Atheist ideas attracted much more attention
that now, and the idea of
"common good", "bonheur general" was commonplace in
the
discussions).
Best
Sergei Soloviev
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