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Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: break down your door for owning a copy of Vladimir
Nabokov's Lolita ...
Hello, Don
the reference was not only to a
caged animal at the Jardin des Plantes, but this same place ( Jardin des Plantes
) has been repeatedly quoted by Nabokov and linked to a "caged
seduction". One such instance, during his Flaubert lecture, we
have Emma Bovary´s trip inside a closed-cab along the
streets in Rouen that passes Le Jardin des Plantes! ( in the first
carriage-seduction scene, we have Rodolphe and Paris; in the
second cab-seduction and road-scene, we find León and Rouen ).
Check the reference to Les Jardin des Plantes
there, on page 165 ( Bowers edition).
I cannot remember the other two references to this
place written by VN. It always appeared to me as a sort of icon for not
only imprisionment, rambles but for perversion and decadence.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 2:12
PM
Subject: Fw: break down your door for
owning a copy of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita ...
EDNOTE. I think it was the Paris zoo.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: break down your door for owning a copy of Vladimir
Nabokov's Lolita ...
It is no surprise that smooth talking,
progressive apes are attracted to novel inspired by view of caged ape in
Berlin Zoo.
George Shimanovich