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...approaches 50 (Nabokov finished the novel in 1953), Lolita remains a brilliant book, a wonderland of language and longing, with an undiminished capacity to enthrall, outrage and provoke litigation. Nabokov had to fight many obscenity battles when the book was published. Now a derivative novel, Lo's Diary (Foxrock; 292 pages; $22.95), by the Italian essayist and translator Pia Pera, has been issued--after the settling of a lawsuit brought by Nabokov's son Dimitri. He insisted that he be allowed to write a preface to the book and that 5% of its profits go to the International Pen Club...
...should be very surprised to find out that Mr. Shapiro had read much by or about this author. Beckett was, of course, born in 1906 in Ireland (Foxrock, County Dublin) and educated at Trinity College before he departed for France. If one wished to take a colonialist point of view one might possibly say that Beckett was born in the then United Kingdom, or even in the so-called British Isles...