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...four women who play Don’s former lovers are equally well-cast. Sharon Stone plays the widowed Laura, a sunny blonde who lives with her adolescent daughter, the aptly named Lolita (Alexis Dziena). Underneath her optimistic facade, Stone adds a sense of vulnerability and loneliness that lends unexpected depth to her character. Tilda Swinton plays Laura’s polar opposite: Penny, the motorcycle chick who lives in a run-down house in the middle of nowhere. Penny’s venomous feelings for Don are nearly palpable, but in spite of her hard exterior, she seems fragile...
...World War II; and the flight to America with Wife Vera and Son Dmitri. Colorful details from this period include Nabokov's career as a teacher at Wellesley and Cornell, his cross-country butterfly hunts, his friendship and falling-out with Edmund Wilson and the sensational success of Lolita, which freed Nabokov from the academy and allowed him to live in an old-style luxury hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva...
...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." In one breath...
...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's fiction, the narcissist label seems inadequate, a bit trendy and more than a little disingenuous. Field made his name studying the work and the man. Better than most outsiders, he knows the sources...
Durkin and Anderson, Harvard’s number one doubles team—they entered the championship ranked 33rd in the nation—lost in the first round to Whitney Benik and Lolita Frangulyan of Florida on Tuesday afternoon...