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...VLADIMIR NABOKOV: LECTURES ON LITERATURE Edited by Fredson Bowers; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 385 pages...
...society has ever been built on the automobile like the U.S.'s. In his novel Lolita, the late Vladimir Nabokov had his hero drive mindlessly around the U.S. because that represented the quintessential American experience. With only 5.3% of the total world population, Americans drive almost 40% of the world's motor vehicles. There is a car for almost every single licensed driver: 120 million, vs. 143 million. Americans use their cars for work and play; they eat in them, sleep in them, pray in them, see movies in them, even make love in them. Some...
...French detective in A Shot in the Dark; a dowager and her friends in The Mouse That Roared. He impersonated celebrities as varied as James Bond and Queen Victoria, and when literary conceits seemed impossible to translate to film, Sellers easily became Quilty, the littérateur of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and the simple-minded Chance of Being There...
...October 1958, when Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita and Harry Golden's memoir Only in America were the most popular new books in the U.S., TIME published its first weekly list of bestsellers. Compiled from information provided by bookstores to TIME correspondents in 22 cities, the list was then one of the few to be truly national in scope. It has since become a bestseller in its own right, distributed by the Associated Press to its 1,370 member newspapers. But as the technology of publishing books has advanced, so has the arcane art of counting book sales...
...shrewd analyses of Richardson's performances and brief exegeses of Stoppard's plays. But mainly the author aims to please both his subjects and his readers. He is dazzled by Stoppard's stylish pessimism and flashy wordplay, yet wisely blocks him from the company of Beckett, Nabokov and Oscar Wilde. Deftly, Tynan puts his judgment of Stoppard in the book's foreword: "A uniquely inventive playwright who has more than once been within hailing distance of greatness." The piece itself is an adulatory delight, especially a scene in which Stoppard emerges as a game-saving hero...