Word: nabokov
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POEMS AND PROBLEMS by Vladimir Nabokov. 218 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...sensibility that evoked thoughts of Mauriac and James Joyce. Claire's Knee, with its themes of memory and desire, had critics remembering Proust. La Collectionneuse (The Collector), the third of Rohmer's irony-laden "moral tales" to reach the U.S., may well get audiences to thumbing their Nabokov...
...visualized myself as a world-famous author of 70 with a mane of wavy white hair. Today I am practically bald." This balding, world-famous author. Vladimir Nabokov, celebrated his 72nd birthday in Switzerland last week by working on a new novel that may be called Transparent Things. The new work, he explained to the New York Times, is being composed on his usual "scrambled index cards, which I gradually fill in and sort out, using up in the process more pencil sharpeners than pencils." Nabokov described his success at beating the biblical quota of 70 years as "a feat...
Incest, that most majestic of taboos, has had quite a literary run during the past few years. Nabokov's Ada, though not quite Pharaonic, elegantly proffered a half sister as better than none. Gore Vidal diddled the subject in Two Sisters, and if there was a moral to the convoluted enigmas of Anthony Burgess's MF, it was never commit incest without a conundrum...
Poor old Humbert Humbert met a host of problems during his pursuit of Lolita, but they were nothing compared with those faced by the optimists intent on adapting Vladimir Nabokov's novel to the musical stage. Dropped as "too ripe" was Annette Ferra, 15 (TIME, March 1). Into the role went Denise Nickerson, 13, who opened as the nifty nymphet in Boston last week. "I can play a sexpot as well as anybody," she told an interviewer, but first-night critics had their reservations. Said one: "She smiles and speaks and sings like a sweet ten-year...