More Re: N and homosexuatity

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Thu Jul 17 11:53:34 CDT 2003


On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 12:13, David Morris wrote:
> 
> http://dir.salon.com/books/feature/2000/05/17/nabokov/index.html?CP=YAH&DN=110
> 
> The gay Nabokov 
> The novelist never could face the secret that cost his brother his life.


Interesting. The extreme degree of VN's homophobia? Is this the view of
his biographers? Was he bigoted in other ways? Antisemitic to any
degree? Vera was Jewish. Geniuses are sometimes hard to figure.

P.






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