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Dmitri Nabokov repies re: VN & Ms Robbe-Grillet's "Lolita"
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Via: Sandy Pallot Klein <taxi@flinet.com>
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FROM DN (WHO FINDS HIMSELF REPLYING A BIT OFTEN AS HE NURSES HIS
VOICE IN N.Y.):
NOT QUITE, CHER MAURICE. I CLEARLY RECALL FATHER, WITH A SMILE,
TELLING ME HE FOUND THE STUNT IN QUESTIONABLE TASTE.
BEST,
DN
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Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
>
> EDITOR's NOTE. On 28 April, Matt Morris sent in a posting commenting on
> parallels between Robbe-Grillet's _Project for a Revolution in New YorK_
> and VN's _Transparent things_. In passing along that item I mentioned
` the story of a lunch in which R-G's actress wife "played" Lolita and the
> (taken-in) waiter inquired "Et un Coca-Cola pour mademoiselle?" (Boyd II,
> 398). Below, Prof. Maurice Couturier, the leading French Nabokovian and
> editor of the forthcoming Pleiade edition of VN in French, offers the
> following comment. NABOKV-L thanks Prof. Couturier.
>
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From Prof. Maurice Couturier:
> I spent a whole day in Nice with Robbe-Grillet ten years ago and asked him
> about this lunch or drink business with the Nabokovs, with the waiter's
> question about "la jeune demoiselle (or jeune fille, I don't remember
> which)". He said then that his wife had not deliberately dressed as a
> Lolita but that the waiter's question did make them hilarious.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis
> U.F.R. Lettres et Sciences Humaines
> C.R.E.L.A.
> Maurice Couturier
> phone : (33) 93.37.53.46
> email : couturier@unice.fr
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FROM DN (WHO FINDS HIMSELF REPLYING A BIT OFTEN AS HE NURSES HIS
VOICE IN N.Y.):
NOT QUITE, CHER MAURICE. I CLEARLY RECALL FATHER, WITH A SMILE,
TELLING ME HE FOUND THE STUNT IN QUESTIONABLE TASTE.
BEST,
DN
= = = = = =
Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
>
> EDITOR's NOTE. On 28 April, Matt Morris sent in a posting commenting on
> parallels between Robbe-Grillet's _Project for a Revolution in New YorK_
> and VN's _Transparent things_. In passing along that item I mentioned
` the story of a lunch in which R-G's actress wife "played" Lolita and the
> (taken-in) waiter inquired "Et un Coca-Cola pour mademoiselle?" (Boyd II,
> 398). Below, Prof. Maurice Couturier, the leading French Nabokovian and
> editor of the forthcoming Pleiade edition of VN in French, offers the
> following comment. NABOKV-L thanks Prof. Couturier.
>
> ------------------------------------
From Prof. Maurice Couturier:
> I spent a whole day in Nice with Robbe-Grillet ten years ago and asked him
> about this lunch or drink business with the Nabokovs, with the waiter's
> question about "la jeune demoiselle (or jeune fille, I don't remember
> which)". He said then that his wife had not deliberately dressed as a
> Lolita but that the waiter's question did make them hilarious.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis
> U.F.R. Lettres et Sciences Humaines
> C.R.E.L.A.
> Maurice Couturier
> phone : (33) 93.37.53.46
> email : couturier@unice.fr