SLSL: Herbert Gold/Nabokov

[jbor]

Additionally to Pynchon's reference to "all these Humbert Humbert cats" in
'Serge's Song' in _Lot 49_  (p. 101), the sequence 'V. in Love' in _V._
illustrates just how much Pynchon had been influenced by _Lolita_. The same
sort of comic/ironic subdeb eroticism persists in the later works too (eg.
Bianca in _GR_, the Vroom girls in _M&D_ etc).

    "It was also the era of 'Howl', _Lolita_, _Tropic of Cancer_ [...]

    "We were encouraged from many directions [...]

    "It was actually OK to write like this! Who knew? The effect was
    exciting, liberating, strongly positive." (pp. 6-7)

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on 20/11/02 8:07 AM, jbor at jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> I'm not sure why there should be such anxiety about a Pynchon-Nabokov link.
> The reference to _Lolita_ in _Lot 49_ is a fairly specific connection.