Nabokov, Amis, Atta

[David Morris]

I remember reading somewhere that Nabokov had a younger brother who
was homosexual and somewhat shunned by the family.  He ended up, after
being captured in Berlin, in a Nazi death camp where he was
exterminated.

On 9/7/06, Anville Azote <anville.azote at gmail.com> wrote:

> My books are packed in various plastic bins right now, awaiting new and virgin bookshelves, so I can't give exact quotations.  However, I  do recall that in his "Annotated Lolita", Alfred Appel notes that  "several Freudians of my acquaintance do interpret nymphets as substitute boys".  I strongly suspect that Nabokov predicted this reaction, since he took the trouble to incorporate a passage where Humbert Humbert toys with his psychotherapists (psycho-the-rapists).  He bribes a nurse to get access to his file, and discovers "with glee" cards calling him "potentially homosexual".