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From: Jay Livingston <LIVINGSTON@saturn.montclair.edu>
I may have missed an earlier posting regarding this, but just in case
nobody has reported it. . .
The April 7 edition of The Nation has a review of "The New Life" by
Orhan Pamuk with the headline: Nabokov in Anatolia.
Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, and the reviewer (Tom LeClair) draws
several parallels between the book and VN's work. Here's a brief sample:
"Pamuk's literary uncle is Nabokov, whose Speak,
Memory slips into the novel thirty pages before the
end. Though similar to the paper chase of Pale
Fire, The New Life is a made-for-Muslims, desexualized
Lolita, which readers should remember was introduced
by, and in my hobby-horse opinion, written by John Ray."
D.M. Thomas, in the Sunday NY Times Book Review, gave the novel a mixed
review, with no mention of Nabokov
Jay Livingston
I may have missed an earlier posting regarding this, but just in case
nobody has reported it. . .
The April 7 edition of The Nation has a review of "The New Life" by
Orhan Pamuk with the headline: Nabokov in Anatolia.
Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, and the reviewer (Tom LeClair) draws
several parallels between the book and VN's work. Here's a brief sample:
"Pamuk's literary uncle is Nabokov, whose Speak,
Memory slips into the novel thirty pages before the
end. Though similar to the paper chase of Pale
Fire, The New Life is a made-for-Muslims, desexualized
Lolita, which readers should remember was introduced
by, and in my hobby-horse opinion, written by John Ray."
D.M. Thomas, in the Sunday NY Times Book Review, gave the novel a mixed
review, with no mention of Nabokov
Jay Livingston