18/09/07 · Lolita dans le Métro
January 25, 1960
Dear Volodya: We are at 12 Hilliard Street, Cambridge—telephone Trowbridge 6-8179. Can't you stop off here? I gather from your Hollywood destination that Lolita is going into the movies. Have you read Queneau's Zazie dans le Métro? which has been described as France's answer to Lolita. If not, I think you should—though it suffers somewhat from the whimsical vein that has got into French writing: Giradoux, Aymé, Anouilh, etc. Love to Véra.
As ever,
Edmund W.
The Levins are going out to Los Angeles in February and may be there when you are there.
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya, The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971