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...list's top five includes Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis...
...Vladimir Nabokov: An Exhibition Marking the Centenary of His Birth" will focus on the building and continuing growth of Harvard's collections and specifically on literary first editions, dedication copies, periodicals, translations, manuscript material from the whole of the author's career. Memorial Rotunda, Widener Library. Call 495-2413 for hours. Through June 2. FREE...
What I like most about these definitions is that they give us a way of looking at some of the great works of art produced in the last 40 or 50 years, strange and tricky works by Pynchon, Nabokov, Beckett and many others. The danger of talking about postmodernism as something that robs us of meaning-as Paglia says humanities scholars are trying to do to us today-is that many of these so-called "postmodern" authors are profoundly moral, presenting some of the difficulties of making meaningful literature in our time...
...novel Bend Sister, Vladimir Nabokov has his hero, the philosopher Adam Krug, attempt to escape with his little son from a communo-fascist state in Eastern Europe to America. Krug imagines David growing into a teenager, playing the strange game of baseball. He imagines him as a man of 40. When David is killed by thugs, Nabokov himself cannot bear it: Krug goes mad, sees his creator is a benevolent artist, and the book ends...
This I remembered, as a teacher mourning Matthew Shepard; but then I recalled also that Nabokov lost his own brother, whom the Nazis arrested and killed because he was gay. Literature, unlike philosophy, is not a consolation. When in Armenia they mourn a child, parents cry, "May I be the one to bear your pain!" They can't and Heaven can't hear the howl. Oh, Matthew Shepard, tsaved tanem...