Re: Lolita's Story To Be Printed in US
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:09:41 +1000
Jim - I am truly surprised, I thought you'd be panning Nabokov til the
nymphets came home (: I'm so glad that you saw the point of all my rantings
eventually. May I gently nudge you in the direction of `Pale Fire'? I'm
sure you'd enjoy it, or at very least tender your Ultimate Verdict on
Nabokov.
P.S. If you liked Chekov try some Katherine Mansfield. Some of it is very
good but some of it is magnificent.
Camille
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>
> Paul...
>
> I share your praise of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekov (I've never been
> able to make it through a Turgenev book in the past), and I have been a
> bit critical of Lolita the book myself, but after forcing my way through
> the whole thing and actually making it to the end it really nailed me.
> The end made the book for me.
>
> I'm reserving judgment on the Lolita rip-off. Similar ripoffs have been
> done before with some success (I've heard good things about John
> Gardner's Grendel, and a stage version of such a rip off would be
> Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which was wonderful).
>
> Anyway, I'm willing to pick the thing up and see if the first 20 pages or
> so draw me in. But that's only because the original seemed to have some
> merit with me.
>
> Jim
>
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