Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0012688, Thu, 4 May 2006 09:58:42 -0400

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Re: Nabokov and McCarthyism (and cousin Nicolas Nabokov)
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> "at a time when university faculties were hostile to the search for
> communists on their campuses, Nabokov befriended the FBI agent
assigned
> to Cornell, and declared he would be proud to have his son join the
FBI in
> that role.' (American Years 311) I suspect that there is a book
> waiting to be written here.

> michael glynn

Book to be written? Really? What about?

Manfred Voss

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I've been fascinated by this discussion, and I agree that there's a book
waiting to be written.

For now, I'm working on an article, "Communism and Pedophilia:
Surveillance in Nabokov's _Lolita_", which I recently presented to
colleagues here at Miami. If anyone is interested in hearing more, I'd
be
happy to give more details offlist.

That Boyd remark, which I cited during my talk, sparked a great deal of
post-presentation chatter.

Marianne Cotugno

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