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...Gift, by Vladimir Nabokov. A magician of language rummages in his tarnished memories of Russian émigré life in Berlin and comes up with a delightful comic fantasy-and a symbolic assault on Philistinism in Russian culture...
...novel Lolita traced the carnal pursuit of a twelve-year-old American nymphet by a middle-aged European émigré named Humbert Humbert, and the rather Electrafying relationship that developed between the stepfather-seducer and the child-mistress. The book's last scene is the movie's first. Moving numbly through a Hollywood-style mansion full of bottles, harps, glasses, statues, bot tles, grand pianos, glasses, sheeted furniture and an incongruous pingpong table...
...letter saying that he was expected to appear. From his retreat at Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva, Novelist Vladimir Nabokov, 63, sent his answer in the form of a letter to the London Times. "In the same list," said the strongly antileftist Russian émigré who left his homeland in 1919, "I find several writers whom I respect but also some others-such as Ilya Ehrenburg, Bertrand Russell and J.P. Sartre-with whom I would not consent to participate in any festival or conference whatsoever." Besides, said he, "I do not believe in abstract discussions...
...went to Churchill, and the result was Churchill's historic but futile "declaration of Franco-British Union." Monnet then flew to Bordeaux in a big Sunderland Flying-boat to try to evacuate the whole French Cabinet. The Cabinet refused to budge, for fear of being labeled cowardly émigrés. A disappointed Monnet returned to London with the flying-boat full of refugee families...
...ballad that passed the rounds in Moscow during the wave of anti-Jewish propaganda officially stirred up over the fake "Doctors' Plot" against Stalin's life in 1952. The book's manuscript was smuggled out of Russia to a group of anti-Communist Polish émigrés in France...