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The emergence of *Queneau *made me wonder if *Cent Mille milliards de poèmes
* (1961) could have any influence on *Pale Fire. *Any comments? -- C. S.
Soares
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Jansy <jansy@aetern.us> wrote:
> After A.Sklyarenko inquired about Boris Vian, the name of
> Vian's friend, Raymond Queneau, came up in the List..
> There are various references by Nabokov to R.Q's 1947 "Exercices de
> Style," but here we come to the connection *Zazie/Lolita*.
>
> From letter 312, written by *Edmund Wilson* (January 25,1960): "...Have
> you read Queneau's *Zazie dans le Métro*? which has been described as
> France's answer to Lolita. If not, I think you should - though it suffers
> somwehat from the whimsical vain that has got into French
> writing:Giraudoux,Aymé, Anouilh,etc."
> **
> *V.Nabokov*'s answer (letter 313,April 5, 1960) ..."Yes, I admire greatly
> ZAZIE DANS LE METRO, it is quite a masterpiece in its "whimsical" genre. (
> Isn't all art whimsical, from Shakespeare to Joyce?)"
>
> *B.Boyd* AY ("*Lolita* Sparks, 299) "*Lolita *would have to wait a little
> longer than *Pnin *for its first American dust jacket. ..Particularly
> enthusiastic was novelis Raymond Queneau. whose 1959 novel *Zazie dans le
> Métro* would translate Lolita's puckishness into the streets of Paris and
> a lighter mood."(note 39: *Douissia Ergaz to VN, July 224, 1956,VNA*)
>
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* (1961) could have any influence on *Pale Fire. *Any comments? -- C. S.
Soares
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Jansy <jansy@aetern.us> wrote:
> After A.Sklyarenko inquired about Boris Vian, the name of
> Vian's friend, Raymond Queneau, came up in the List..
> There are various references by Nabokov to R.Q's 1947 "Exercices de
> Style," but here we come to the connection *Zazie/Lolita*.
>
> From letter 312, written by *Edmund Wilson* (January 25,1960): "...Have
> you read Queneau's *Zazie dans le Métro*? which has been described as
> France's answer to Lolita. If not, I think you should - though it suffers
> somwehat from the whimsical vain that has got into French
> writing:Giraudoux,Aymé, Anouilh,etc."
> **
> *V.Nabokov*'s answer (letter 313,April 5, 1960) ..."Yes, I admire greatly
> ZAZIE DANS LE METRO, it is quite a masterpiece in its "whimsical" genre. (
> Isn't all art whimsical, from Shakespeare to Joyce?)"
>
> *B.Boyd* AY ("*Lolita* Sparks, 299) "*Lolita *would have to wait a little
> longer than *Pnin *for its first American dust jacket. ..Particularly
> enthusiastic was novelis Raymond Queneau. whose 1959 novel *Zazie dans le
> Métro* would translate Lolita's puckishness into the streets of Paris and
> a lighter mood."(note 39: *Douissia Ergaz to VN, July 224, 1956,VNA*)
>
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>
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