(Scott Johnson) Yesterday's Wall Street Journal carries an interesting review of Robert Roper's Nabokov in America. (Subtitle: On the Road to Lolita.) The review, by Ben Downing, appeared in the paper under the heading "The naturalization papers." I'm generally familiar with Nabokov's career, but I had missed the humorous details behind the success of Lolita, a tale told by a classically unreliable narrator: When, in 1947, Nabokov began contemplating what he described
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