Gary Shteygart, author of the hilarious _The Russian Debutante's Handbook_, offers his thoughts on

"t.A.T. u" aka "Tatu". the Russian teen-age lesbian rock duo in his New Yorker article "Teen Spirit" of March 10 2003 (pp. 42-49). Along the way, he mentions the avant-gard writer Vladimir Sorokin whose comic scandalous novel _Gay Lard_ (Goluboe salo) is under legal threat. In passing, he notes that "the novel's most ingenious passages are paradies od Tolstoy and Nabokov."

Perhaps some kindly soul who has read the book can provide NABOKV-L with a sample paragraph or two of one of the VN parodies.