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...When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation," said Vladimir Nabokov, "the very act of attention may lead to our involuntarily sinking into the history of that object. Novices must learn to skim over matter if they want matter to stay at the exact level of the moment. Transparent things, through which the past shines...
...Vladimir Nabokov embraced a similar theme to some wondrous effects in his novel Ada. But the author is no Nabokov, though he shares the master's taste for drollery and erudition. Like Nabokov, he is also something of an outsider. Born in Massachusetts, Theroux has lived abroad most of his adult life. His present home is London. Picture Palace is his tenth novel; The Great Railway Bazaar, an account of the author's international train travels, was a bestseller in 1975, and his reviews and critieism appear with regularity in the U.S. and England...
Lolita. This is the story that taught a whole generation how to thank goodness for little girls. It also gave America's greatest mad scientist director, Stanley Kubrick, the chance to experiment with Nabokov's novel--and the result remains titillating. Some will argue that Sue Lyons was too old to play Nabokov's beguiling nymphet. But you have to know that those sunglasses and red lipstick and tight pants sum up the early 60s' teen angel. Others will tell you that James Mason's manners are too good to convey the sick depths of Humboldt Humboldt's jealousy...
DIED. Nicolas Nabokov, 74, composer, author and witty raconteur who hobnobbed with the top musicians of his generation; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A Russian-born cousin of the late novelist Vladimir Nabokov, he got mixed reviews from critics for his flashy ballet scores (Don Quixote, Ode). But he won universal acclaim from the arts world as an organizer of international music festivals in Rome, Tokyo and Paris during the 1950s and early '60s. Nabokov also had a career as an urbane social chronicler (Old Friends and New Music, Bagazh...
Dirk Bogarde is the star of Pass-binder's newest, yet unreleased film Despair, an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel. Though he has worked on more than 30 pictures, he says flatly that working with Fassbinder was "the most enjoyable experience I've ever had in the movies." Director and star understood one another instinctively. "Rainer and Tom Stoppard, the scriptwriter, came down to my house in the south of France to talk about the film," says Bogarde. "After four minutes we knew that we would get along, and I said that I didn...