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...Russell feels that undergraduates in undergraduates in particular could benefit from studying the works of Nabokov in the intimate classroom setting of a house seminar...
...you’d rather read “Lolita,” and don’t mind doing it surrounded by reinforced concrete, then you may want to consider Mather’s house seminar on Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, taught by Professor James R. Russell. The course—Mather 77: “Nabokov”—will focus on Nabokov’s life and work using his English-language autobiography and his major literary works...
...Nabokov is considered an enigmatic sort of stylist that puts some people off,” Russell said, “and these people tend to think of him as coldhearted...
...every point in his life that I’ve read his novels, I’ve learned something new,” Russell said, “At the undergrad level, an introduction to Nabokov gives a student an emotional foundation, one that will stay throughout a person’s whole life...
...Afterword to Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov wrote that one of the subjects taboo to American publishers was that of "the total atheist who lives a happy and useful life, and dies in his sleep at the age of 106." New Line, having invested something like $180 million in The Golden Compass, is similarly scared of its antireligious content. The company that boldly greenlighted Peter Jackson's $300 million Hobbit ambitions before a frame of the first movie was shot, and made billions from riding that risk, hasn't said yes to films two and three of the Pullman books - although...