From: Bill J.
Category: Other
Date: 7/6/99
Time: 9:32:08 PM
Remote Name: 129.219.247.97
http://www.nymag.com/Critics/view.asp?id=1588
JOHN LEONARD SEZ: "And then you'd have to wonder why Nabokov, so happily married for so many years, so equally contemptuous of Dostoyevsky and Freud, turned so often in his fiction to incest (*Ada*) and child sex (see the nastier precursor to *Lolita*, *The Enchanter*); why he dreamed in so many novels of insanity and suicide, of artist-criminals and artist-madmen, of strangled wives and slaughtered sons and debauched nymphets; and whether in his seething for a Zembla, or some other Antiterra, there wasn't some insectly sickness. Just asking."