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...making you expect "I had sex in an outhouse...when I was 12 I masturbated with a stapler" and so forth), and the other intellectual material is less than insightful. The most interesting article on the site at present: Dmitri Nabokov's essay on copyright laws and his father's Lolita...
This lovely, lilting parody, Steve Martin's "Lolita at Fifty," suggests one way to approach the menacing legend of Vladimir Nabokov's great novel. In six pages Martin deftly sketches a woman who has known and used her allure for so long--ever since she was 11 and met Humbert Humbert--that it has become her career, a real-life variation on the novel, her own definition of Loliteracy...
...approaches 50 (Nabokov finished the novel in 1953), Lolita remains a brilliant book, a wonderland of language and longing, with an undiminished capacity to enthrall, outrage and provoke litigation. Nabokov had to fight many obscenity battles when the book was published. Now a derivative novel, Lo's Diary (Foxrock; 292 pages; $22.95), by the Italian essayist and translator Pia Pera, has been issued--after the settling of a lawsuit brought by Nabokov's son Dimitri. He insisted that he be allowed to write a preface to the book and that 5% of its profits go to the International Pen Club...
...course, this too is fiction: a tribute to and ripoff of Nabokov. Pera gives Lo a younger brother, who died in a freak accident (tornado, live wire), and a lingering devotion to her dead dad, for whom Humbert is a sexier surrogate. Lo records scenes of innocent sapphic frolics, moviegoing (It's a Wonderful Life is about "how everything turns out right because the father didn't die after all") and quarrels with her bossy, desperate...
During the 40-minute lecture, Dunn quoted from Kafka and Vladimir Nabokov as well as children's authors like Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and J. K. Rowling, author of the popular Harry Potter books...