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 Teeg rated 37 months ago-
Lolita
50 Years Later
"Nabokov, who fled persecution in Russia and in Nazi Europe, was a professor of Russian literature at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. when he wrote Lolita, and many of the places described in the book are easily recognizable by residents today.
The author did a t...
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- TiagoA rated 26 months ago
- There is an audio file of Nabokov reading the little poem written by Humbert Humbert.
- gabrielle rated 37 months ago
- here's an interesting analysis of Nabokov's book Lolita.
- blakelylaw rated 37 months ago
- Regardless of what you think of the book itself; its role in the literary world is well worth discussing.
- Teeg rated 37 months ago
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Lolita
50 Years Later
"Nabokov, who fled persecution in Russia and in Nazi Europe, was a professor of Russian literature at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. when he wrote Lolita, and many of the places described in the book are easily recognizable by residents today.
The author did a tremendous amount of research to get the details of American life right. "He would do things like travel on the buses around Ithaca and record phrases, in a little notebook, from young girls that he heard coming back from school," says Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd."
Stumbled upon in the Buzz!
- amphibia rated 37 months ago
- Nabokov uses English like Clinton uses charm...........it is ecstatic, creepy, beautiful and confounding, all in one sentence, and through each page.
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