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From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@hotpop.com>
I've always found Thomas Mann's `Death In Venice' to form an interesting
bookend to `Lolita' (and the movie starring Dirk Bogarde a similar place
beside Kubrick's Lolita) - however, book and movie seem a less well known
now than ever. I doubt that a movie about true male-for-teenage male lust or
paedophilia would fare as well on today's marketplace; if distributors were
afraid of touching `Lolita', imagine throwing this additional twist in the
tale (after all, `The Tin Drum' was banned in Oklahoma in 1998 - despite
being freely available to anyone since being made in 1974).
Then again, a very good film refering to it, `Death in Long Island' passed
through without a peep. Perhaps it was because the younger love interest was
played by the star of a soap opera where the common joke was that he was
still at high school while clearly old enough to be the parent of several of
his classmates ;)
Camille Scaysbrook
> Dear List,
>
> As VN predicted many years ago, he is still remembered as the author of
> Lolita and translator of Eugene Onegin.
>
> A propos American beauties and starlets, personally, I find Nathalie
> Portman's part in Luc Besson's film LEON ,which has gone virtually
unnoticed
> (and which, let me add, was brought out censored in the USA) the best
> "Lolita" I have ever seen, although Dominique Swain's interpretation is
not
> without merit.
>
> Recently published by the Oxford University Press, Oxford Guide to
> Literature in English Translation, edited by Peter France (ISBN
> 0-19-818359-3), a gripping book which starts fittingly, I think, by
> mentioning Pushkin and VN. Please see index for the various references to
> VN.
>
> Abdellah Bouazza, The Netherlands <abdellah.bouazza@compaq.com>.
>
I've always found Thomas Mann's `Death In Venice' to form an interesting
bookend to `Lolita' (and the movie starring Dirk Bogarde a similar place
beside Kubrick's Lolita) - however, book and movie seem a less well known
now than ever. I doubt that a movie about true male-for-teenage male lust or
paedophilia would fare as well on today's marketplace; if distributors were
afraid of touching `Lolita', imagine throwing this additional twist in the
tale (after all, `The Tin Drum' was banned in Oklahoma in 1998 - despite
being freely available to anyone since being made in 1974).
Then again, a very good film refering to it, `Death in Long Island' passed
through without a peep. Perhaps it was because the younger love interest was
played by the star of a soap opera where the common joke was that he was
still at high school while clearly old enough to be the parent of several of
his classmates ;)
Camille Scaysbrook
> Dear List,
>
> As VN predicted many years ago, he is still remembered as the author of
> Lolita and translator of Eugene Onegin.
>
> A propos American beauties and starlets, personally, I find Nathalie
> Portman's part in Luc Besson's film LEON ,which has gone virtually
unnoticed
> (and which, let me add, was brought out censored in the USA) the best
> "Lolita" I have ever seen, although Dominique Swain's interpretation is
not
> without merit.
>
> Recently published by the Oxford University Press, Oxford Guide to
> Literature in English Translation, edited by Peter France (ISBN
> 0-19-818359-3), a gripping book which starts fittingly, I think, by
> mentioning Pushkin and VN. Please see index for the various references to
> VN.
>
> Abdellah Bouazza, The Netherlands <abdellah.bouazza@compaq.com>.
>