Nabokov, Amis, Atta

[Carvill John]

>While Nabokov's on the mind, the Martin Amis forward to whatever edition of 
>Lolita I have is excellent, and deepened my understanding of the novel.

Lolita is genius of course, Pale Fire too, and I love Pnin. But Nabokov 
himself (get ready to ignite your flames) has always seemed a cold, remote, 
rather bloodless figure to me. And probably a little bit right-wing to boot, 
not that that would be seen as a negative by everyone around here.

The Observer's been heavily trailing their exclusive for tomorrow: Martin 
Amis on Muhammad Atta

Muhammad Atta's last days

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observer/archives/2006/08/31/muhammad_attas_1.html#more

Never been too impressed with Amis, but might be worth a look.


Cheers
JC