Date:         Thu, 8 Feb 1996 09:19:56 -0800
Reply-To:     Vladimir Nabokov Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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From:         Donald Barton Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      New book: LOLITA by Christine Raguet-Bouvart (fwd)

EDITOR'S NOTE. Christine Raguet-Bouvart of the UFR Pays Anglophones of=20
the University of Bordeaux has just published the volume described below.
Dr. Raguet-Bouvart is the author of numerous articles on Nabokov and=20
edited the special Nabokov issue of the distinguished journal EUROPE=20
(March 1995).
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From: Christian LERAT - UFR Pays Anglophones <[log in to unmask]
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        Just published:LOLITA, un royaume au-del=E0 des mers, by Christine
Raguet-Bouvart, Talence, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 33405 Talence,
France, 315 pages, 125 French francs

Tables of contents:
-Avant-propos
-Essais:
1) Roman du d=E9placement
2) Doubles et reflets
3) Exil
4) Amerique mythique
5) Obstacles
6) La conquete du tyran

-Anthologie:
1) Histoire de la publication
        Dupee,FW, "LOLITA in America"
        Hicks,G, "Lolita and Her Problems"
2) Censure
        Girodias,M, "Pornologist on Olympus"
        Levin,B, "Why All The Fuss?"
        Greene, G, "The John Gordon Society"
        Toynbee, P, "Two Kinds of Extremism"
3) Obsc=E9nit=E9, pornographie et morale
        Prescott, O, "Books of the Time"
        Pritchett, VS, "LOLITA"
        Davies, R, "LOLITA's Crime: sex made funny"
        Nicolson, H, "Public Corruption and Private Freedom"
        Anonyme, "LOLITA and the Critics"
        Janeway, E, "The tragedy of man driven by desire"
4) Amour
        Galey, M, "Lolita, la nymphette dee 12 ans rend Nabokov c=E9l=E8bre
        Rougemont, D, "De l'amour, d'Iseut =E0 Lolita"
        Bastide, FR, "Scandale de la puret=E9"
5) Parent=E9s litt=E9raires
        Aldridge, AO, "C=E9cile"
        Seldon, ES, "Lolita and Justine"
        Kreise/Berberova "Nabokov et sa Lolita" (I could not get the rights
         to publish Berberova's text in France)
6) Qualit=E9s narratives
        Brenner, C, "Nabokov: The Art of the Perverse"
        Rubinstein, E, "Approaching LOLITA"
        Lauter, P, "The Nymphet's Tale"
        Jong, E, "Time has been kind to the nymphet: LOLITA 30 years later"
7) Humour, comedier, farce, satire ou parodie?
        Malcolm, D, "Lo, the poor nymphet"
        Hollander, J, "The Perilous magic of nymphets"
        Schickel, R, "A review of a novel you can't buy"

-Chronologie
-Bibliographie s=E9lective