Nabokov, Amis, Atta

[Ande]

That would be adolescent boys attracted to slim volumes with prurient 
subject matter...



Steven wrote:

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