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...European period between the wars and provided some naughty parts. The novelist's great-grandmother Nina von Korf continued a love affair with Dmitri Nabokov, the novelist's grandfather, after he became her son-in-law. This, according to Field, accounts for the theme of incest in books like Ada and Lolita, a reversal of family history in which "the man marries the daughter in order to be able to continue more easily to be her mother's lover." As a gossip, Field has it both ways. Nabokov's grandmother Maria and Alexander II "must have been fleeting lovers...
...Life in Part but a revisionist view of the man and much of his art. The literary icon Field once cryptically defined as a "Russian-American writer of our time and of his own reality" is now called a "great Russian-American Narcissus." Late novels such as Ada and Look at the Harlequins! are seen as works of a "garden-variety egotist." Both books have their share of self-indulgence and preening; neither approaches the level of masterpieces like Lolita and Pale Fire, the last word on the mad pursuit of biographical reality. But viewed against the body of Nabokov...
...parents would be in the living room, and my aunt Ada and my brothers and sisters. We would be eating popcorn. As it got later, I remember lying on the floor so my mother wouldn't see me. Uncle Lew would stop for a while, and then someone else would spell him, my dad or my aunt Ruth. And then Uncle Lew would come back. The period he talked about so well was about ten years on either side of the turn of the century. A beautiful time, I still think so. And I just wanted him to tell more...
...largest and most attractive lecture rooms and exhibition halls are currently inaccessible by wheelchair. Because the Fogg was built long before the American Disabilities Act of 1990, rooms like the Norton Lecture Hall, which seats four hundred, are not handicapped-accessible and frequently underused. The building remains exempt from ADA standards, since plans currently exist to renovate...
...Ada M. McMahon ’06 has some reservations about a 24-hour library...