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Author Title Year of Pu Genre Type Transtextual connections Spur Parodying or Referencing? Relative Obscurity of Parody or Reference In Nabokovilia/nabopop? Notes Reference Degree Born Died Author Wrote Ref at Age Lives in Author's Gender POV Explicit Groupings http://www "A small wooden partition slid open. Inside, a pair of dark eyes against a porcelain-white face stared back at Adamson, Isaac Tokyo Suckerpunch 2004 Mystery Popular Culture Lolita Reference Mostly overt Yes me. The little jump quickened. I felt like Humbert Humbert at a junior-high gymnastics tournament." BA 1971 33 Chicago, IL Male First Person The materials, when gathered, appeared to have been in the process for being printed and bound by an unknown publisher in London, as evidence [sic] by the handwritten "Preface" of an editor known as Charles Kinbote. No historical records that we have checked a "Charles Kinbote" working in the blossoming British Insistence on the publishing industry in the late 1800s; it could be this was a pen name for T.S. Eliot and that the firm he actuality of a fictional worked for had, in the end, declined to release this journal to the public for any number of social and legal Adler, Bill (pseudonym) 80 Days in Captivity 2005 Erotica Popular Cult text Pale Fire Parody Obscure No http://booksramifications. You need biographical data Male First Person I had to de-gay my apartment completely. It was not an ardous task, for I was not completely out of the closet then. Still, I worried endlessly. Cleaning out my books took most of the time. I got a cardboard box to http://www hide in my basement. In it, I placed Baldwin, Proust, Mishima, and Wilde. I even threw in Yourcenar's books just in case. Two days before he arrived, I panicked. I sent Nabokov's Pale Fire down as well. I did not wish to risk anything. Charles Kinbote could disinter me. He tried to treat me like a man and I did not feel like Alameddine, Rabih Koolaids 1998 Novel Literature Pale Fire Reference Overt Yes one. MBA 1959 39 San Francisco Male First Person "Green Pea Soup" (Donut Comes http://www Alice Donut Alive) 1988 Song Popular Culture Lolita Reference Overt Yes "...If Linda Blair was my Lolita her head could spin…" You need biographical data Male Mary [Looking at Tracy]: "What do you do, Tracy?" Tracy: "I go to high school." http://www Blurring of Authorial Mary [Chuckling and nodding]: "Oh, really, really, hm. [Aside to Yale] Somewhere Nabokov is smiling, if you Allen, Woody Manhattan 1979 Movie Popular Cult Persona & Work Lolita Reference Mostly overt Yes know what I mean." College 1935 44 New York, NY Male Even when he was in familiar company (his immediate family, for instance) it sometimes seemed to Richard that those gathered in the room were not quite authentic selves -- that they had gone away and then come back not quite right, half remade or reborn by some blasphemous, backhanded, and above all inexpensive process. In a circus, in a funhouse. All flaky and carny. Not quite themselves. Himself very much included. He said, 'Is this without interest? Nabokov said he was frankly homosexual in his literary tastes. I don't think men and women write and read in exactly the same way. They go at it differently.' "'And I suppose,' she said, 'that there are racial differences too?' "He didn't answer. For a moment Richard looked worryingly short-necked. He was in fact coping with a digestive matter, or at least he was sitting tight until the digestive matter resolved itself one way or the http://www other." "'But that was... Wasn't that just a maneuver? To avoid a homosexuality scandal," said Richard carefully. 'Advice from Gide. Before Proust went to Gallimard.' "'Nabokov,' suggested Balfour. "'Yeah but that was just a book of love poems. When he was a schoolboy.' "'Nevertheless. Philip Larkin. And of course James Joyce.'" Fictional author as "Richard had hated all the poets and novelists too, but the playwrights, the playwrights... With Nabokov, and Amis, Martin The Information 1995 Novel Literature subject Author Reference Overt Yes others, Richard regarded the drama as a primitive and long-exhausted form. The drama boasted BA 1949 46 Manchester, E Male Third Person When she arranged this meeting with Guy, over the telephone, Nicola stressed the need for commando or bank-caper synchrony ('Unpunctuality throws me utterly. It's tiresome, I know. The orphanage, perhaps...'); but this didn't stop her keeping him waiting for a good fifteen minutes ('Please, sit down!' she called from http://www the bedroom. 'I do apologize'). She needed fifteen minutes. One to envelope her bikini in a plain white cotton dress. Another to give the bedclothes a fantastic worrying. What was the delightful phrase in Lolita: the guilty dissaray of hotel linen suggesting and ex-convicts saturnalia with a couple of fat old whores? The Amis, Martin London Fields 1989 Novel Literature Lolita Reference Overt Yes rest of the time Nicola needed for make-up... BA 1949 40 Manchester, E Male Third Person They perfected and licensed to a bigger company a piece of software Lizzie called Speak Memory, which was permitting strangers -- young and old strangers, stupid strangers, strangers with funny accents -- to call a corporate phone number, ask a talking computer for any one of the corporation's hundred or hundred thousand employees by name, and be connected to the employee's extension automatically. http://www He thinks she may be Dominique Swain -- excellent memory, George! -- who had the title role in the Lolita remake. Or is it Britney Spears? Dianne hands Ben the two stacks of Friday-afternoon reading. There's his trading stack (companies' fresh quarterly and annual reports, clippings from newsletters about metallurgy and cable TV) and his making stack (conceptual designs from his NASCAR track architect, deal memos for the rights to William Gaddis Andersen, Kurt Turn of the Century 1999 Novel Literature Speak, MeParody Obscure Yes and Vladimir Nabokov books, the April P & L from BarbieWorld). BA 1954 45 New York, NY Male Third Person Authorial persona as arbiter of ethical or Baker, Nicholson U & I 1991 Memoir Literature esthetic disposition Author Reference Overt No Chapter Four BA 1957 34 South BerwickMale First Person "When I first read Nabokov's Glory, I had been bothered by a sentence early on that claimed that the mother's love for the hero was so violent and intense 'that it seemed to make the heart hoarse.' Basic http://www anatomy aside, the phrase seemed wrong -- strained and conventional and rhythmically bad and untrue to the real sensations of love. I ascribed its general inadequacy to some especially tricky problem of Authorial persona as translation. But now that I had the Bug to care for three days a week, I noticed that this phrase, which I had arbiter of ethical or remembered only as something puzzlingly out of character, was coming to mind increasingly frequently, Baker, Nicholson Room Temperature 1990 Novel Literature esthetic disposition Glory Reference Overt Yes and seeming each time to capture more exactly the real pneumatics of the parental sensation...." BA 1957 33 South BerwickMale First Person It is une petite levrette d'Italie: a small Italian greyhound bitch. Nabokov, who is exceedingly peremptory with all translators of Flaubert, renders this as whippet. Whether he is zoologically correct or not, he certainly loses the sex of the animal, which seems to me important... "The rising sun lit up the topmost stones of the Pyramid, and Flaubert, looking down at his feet, noticed a http://www small business-card pinned in place. 'Humbert, Frotteur', it read, and gave a Rover address... "Isn't it, perhaps, a notable historical coincidence that the greatest European novelist of the 19th century should be introduced at the Pyramids to one of the 20th century's most notorious fictional characters? That Flaubert, still damp from skewering boys in Cairo bath-houses, should fall on the name of Nabokov's seducer of underage American childhood? And further, what is the profession of this single-barrelled Authorial persona as version of Humbert Humbert? He is a frotteur. Literally, a French polisher; but also, the sort of sexual arbiter of ethical or deviant who loves the rub of the crowd. Barnes, Julian Flaubert's Parrot 1984 Novel Literature esthetic disposition Author Reference Overt Yes "...Perhaps Nabokov had read Flaubert's letters before writing Lolita." BA 1946 38 London, Engla Male First Person Lady Amherst to the Author."Ah John, "Novelist Nabokov ne'er conceived for his Lolita so portentous a http://www catalogue of motels as Ambrose and I have couched in since my last, or reserved for couching in the nights Barth, John Letters 1979 Novel Literature Lolita Reference Overt Yes ahead: old nymph and her young debaucher!" MA 1930 49 Chesterton, MaMale WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT: When you think about it, the main character has a little Holden Caulfield crossed with Humbert Humbert... And then in that sort of pseudo-Russian novel ilk. I think it's Grover's best work to date. (...) A: When I make my movie, they're gonna have a hell of a time finding a category for it. Did I tell you about http://www my movie? B: Yes. A: Well, it's changed a little bit... Now it's about this guy who lives with his mother and sort of fall in love. It's real, uh, shocking, you know, like Lolita. B: They weren't blood relations in Lolita. Baumbach Noah Kicking and Screaming 1995 Movie Popular Culture Lolita Reference Overt Yes A: Well, see, I'm doing something different, then.

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