Sandy Klein's reference to the "Iranian boom"*
stemming from Azar Nafisi's "Reading Nabokov in Iran" mentions an interview
with Orhan Pamuk by Lila Azam Zanganeh who is reportedly writing a
book about VN. In that interview Pamuk discusses his love of VN's writing.
It may be found at:
(A year
or two ago I (DBJ) remarked a combined Montaigne-VN allusion in one of
Pamuk's novels on NABOKV-L.)
Don Johnson
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*I trust our leaders will not take my jocular
phrasing as hard evidence of an Iranian WMD
program.