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The American edition of *Misreadings* translated "Nonita" for "Granita."
Here are some excerpts:
http://www.fulmerford.com/waxwing/nabobilia/nv34.html
(In another humor piece in the same collection, an imaginary reader's report
on Ulysses mentions Lolita in passing: "[On Homer, The Oddysey.] Personally,
I like this book. A good yarn, exciting, packed with adventure. Sufficient
love interest, both marital fidelity and adulterous flings (Calypso is a
great character, a real man eater); there's even a Lolita aspect, with the
teenager Nausicaa, where the author doesn't spell things out, but it's a
turn-on anyway."
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Jansy <jansy@aetern.us> wrote:
> *Hafid Bouazza* [*to JM:For the first time in my (not very thorough)
> experience of reading or browsing through Umberto Eco's books, did I come
> across the name of Nabokov. Cf. Umberto Eco, The Infinity of Lists, from
> Homer to Joyce, Macklehose Press, London, 2009*.] Umberto Eco has written
> a short story called 'Nonita', about a man, called Umberto Umberto, who
> falls in love with a granny. A clear, though net very humorous, parody of
> Lolita. Eco wrote that he wrote the story because he was struck by the
> identical names of his and of Humbert Humbert.
>
> *JM*: What a marvellously funny information on U. Eco's short-story, about
> an Umberto Umberto who falls in love with a granny: "Nonita". A
> true "Sighting" for the List.
> The exchange of consonants (from"Lolita" to "Nonita") is not without
> its irony. If I'm not mistaken, grandmother in Italian is "Nona".
> It reminded me of one of the hazards in the translation of the title of
> Hitchcocks movie, "Psychosis" ( I don't know if this is a joke, or if it
> happened).The title became "The son who was the mother," thereby revealing
> an important aspect of the plot).
> "Nonita", ideed!!!
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Here are some excerpts:
http://www.fulmerford.com/waxwing/nabobilia/nv34.html
(In another humor piece in the same collection, an imaginary reader's report
on Ulysses mentions Lolita in passing: "[On Homer, The Oddysey.] Personally,
I like this book. A good yarn, exciting, packed with adventure. Sufficient
love interest, both marital fidelity and adulterous flings (Calypso is a
great character, a real man eater); there's even a Lolita aspect, with the
teenager Nausicaa, where the author doesn't spell things out, but it's a
turn-on anyway."
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Jansy <jansy@aetern.us> wrote:
> *Hafid Bouazza* [*to JM:For the first time in my (not very thorough)
> experience of reading or browsing through Umberto Eco's books, did I come
> across the name of Nabokov. Cf. Umberto Eco, The Infinity of Lists, from
> Homer to Joyce, Macklehose Press, London, 2009*.] Umberto Eco has written
> a short story called 'Nonita', about a man, called Umberto Umberto, who
> falls in love with a granny. A clear, though net very humorous, parody of
> Lolita. Eco wrote that he wrote the story because he was struck by the
> identical names of his and of Humbert Humbert.
>
> *JM*: What a marvellously funny information on U. Eco's short-story, about
> an Umberto Umberto who falls in love with a granny: "Nonita". A
> true "Sighting" for the List.
> The exchange of consonants (from"Lolita" to "Nonita") is not without
> its irony. If I'm not mistaken, grandmother in Italian is "Nona".
> It reminded me of one of the hazards in the translation of the title of
> Hitchcocks movie, "Psychosis" ( I don't know if this is a joke, or if it
> happened).The title became "The son who was the mother," thereby revealing
> an important aspect of the plot).
> "Nonita", ideed!!!
> Search the archive<http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en> Contact
> the Editors <nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu> Visit "Nabokov
> Online Journal" <http://www.nabokovonline.com> Visit Zembla<http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm> View
> Nabokv-L Policies <http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm> Manage
> subscription options <http://listserv.ucsb.edu/>
>
> All private editorial communications, without exception, are read by both
> co-editors.
>
--
Juan Martinez
-- http://fulmerford.com
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