Nabokov, Amis, Atta

[Steven]

	I liked Ada a lot also -- not to mention Transparent Things and most  
of his Russian novels.  Your crit. of Lolita is one I've never heard  
before.  The only adolescent boy in the book is 'Gordon, the haggard  
masturbator', to my recollection.
	
	Steve

	
On Sep 3, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Ande wrote:

> I'm a fan of the Nabokov that wrote Ada (or Ardor)--playful,  
> synesthetic, pan-cultural, trans-genre, time-bending, family-loving  
> Nabokov.  I dislike Lolita--it is a trick of a book, written to  
> expose adolescent boys to N.'s disdain for American culture.

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