Showing posts with label Trilling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trilling. Show all posts

Saturday, April 5, 2008

this YouTube life

One way the reader can tell Humbert Humbert is not Vladimir Nabokov: 'At one point he confuses a hummingbird and a hawksmoth[?], now I would never do that.'

Nabokov and Trilling on Lolita, Parts 1 and 2, mentioned in passing in Languagehat's post 'On Last Looking into A la recherche du temps perdu'.