Word: lolitas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet publication, 64 Chess Review, is prompted by today's new, more permissive cultural climate to print an excerpt from Nabokov's 1954 memoir Other Shores with a glowing introduction by Poet Fazil Iskander. So what if Nabokov is nine years dead, his greatest works, including the sensational Lolita, published decades ago? So what that the 2,000-word excerpt only chronicles the author's labors on a chess problem as an allegory for his family's difficulties in World War II Paris? "After all," gloats Iskander, "he is ours...
...Lolita...
...works, insisted upon new ones as soon as he emigrated to the U.S. Other demanding authors, who possess a greater command of foreign tongues, have decided that self-translation is best. Nabokov, whose early work was written in Russian, rendered Laughter in the Dark into English. He also turned Lolita, which was written in English, into Russian. Samuel Beckett, an Irishman who writes mostly in French, has translated his plays, Waiting for Godot, Endgame and others, into his native English...
...such troubled protagonists as the Irish fugitive in Odd Man Out (1946), Rommel in The Desert Fox (1951) and The Desert Rats (1953), and the drunken Norman Maine in A Star Is Born (1954). As his matinee-idol features aged, his performances became comically macabre: his Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1962) is a tour de force of nympholeptic longing. In his last decade, Mason lived as a Swiss squire, occasionally playing featured roles in international films...
This totality can only be hinted at in a museum exhibition, so the spotlights are on individual achievements: the sensuousness of Milles' bronze model for Europa and the Bull (depicting Europa as a perplexed Lolita, although she is grown up in the full-scale sculpture); the bold, glazed vases of Maija Grotell; the assertive, colorful fabric designs of Strengell. Most prominent in the show is the best-known achievement of Cranbrook: the furniture and interior design by the Saarinens, the Eameses, Bertoia, Florence Schust Knoll and others. One exhibit replicates a typical mid-century office. Designed by Florence Knoll...