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...that does not help. As the hours slip away and you see life passing you by, you remember the real chess paradigm, Nabokov's Luzhin, the genius who finally apprehends "the full horror and abysmal depths of chess" and goes quite bonkers. And you know you've got to stop...
...piano before Humbert Humbert (Per-Arne Wahlgren) shoots him-is a scene worthy of Shostakovich in his manic, trumpets-and-snare-drums mode, but all Schedrin can muster is forced-march noodlings. As for the vulgar libretto, Schedrin wrote it himself but neglected to secure rights from the Nabokov estate. The copyright problems were eventually sorted out with the stipulation that the opera may not be sung in any major language such as Russian or English (in Stockholm it was sung in Swedish...
THROUGHOUT VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S Lolita the prose chimes with music. How appropriate, then, that Rodion Schedrin, one of Russia's pre-eminent composers, has seized upon the novel for an opera. Schedrin's Lolita, which received its world premiere at the Royal Opera in Stockholm last month, runs four hours; unfortunately, the novel has more music on a single page...
When it comes to backbiting and ridicule, the pair easily keep pace with their literary friends. McCarthy finds Charles Reich (The Greening of America) "smarmily loving" and feminist Germaine Greer "an absurd Australian giantess." Not to be outdone, Arendt declares Margaret Mead "a monster" and Vladimir Nabokov "an intelligent show-off." Her 1957 take on Norman Podhoretz, critic, editor and later author of the confessional memoir Making It: "one of these bright youngsters with bright hopes for a nice career." Only three years later, it is "little Podhoretz, already soooo 'tired' like the proverbial Jewish waiter...
Another recent law enacted in Canada prohibits not child pornography but any written or graphic depiction of individuals under 18 in sexual situations; this law could conceivably ban literary classics such as Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita or all of the works by Judy Blume. On Dec. 16, 1993, a display of works by the artist Eli Langer at the Mercer Union, a respected gallery, were seized by the Toronto Police Morality Squad. Langer now faces ten years in jail and fines--and under the law he is guilty until proven innocent...