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From: Darryl
To: nABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:54 AM
Subject: phillip Kerr and vn
Your remark re British thriller writer Philip Kerr reminded me that there are 2 references to VN in Kerr's A 5-Year Plan,. On pg. 272 of the Pocket pb Nabokov is mentioned in a list of authors on a book shelf, "Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Nabokov." And on pg. 369 a Russian submarine shows up, with a Captain Lieutenant Eugene Luzhin. Surely no coincidence.
Don't remember VN mentioned in 3 other Kerr novels, The Grid, and Esau and The Shot. Can't really recommend any of these 4 other than as pop thrillers. Have higher hopes for The 2nd Angel, and A Philisophical Investigation.
Darryl Schade