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- <text id=93TT1952>
- <title>
- June 28, 1993: Lolita, Post-Modernized
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jun. 28, 1993 Fatherhood
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 75
- Lolita, Post-Modernized
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
- </p>
- <p> May-December romance, once the provenance of great literary
- fiction, today is the stuff of great tabloid headlines. Amy
- and Joey, Woody and Soon-Yi. Reality can be so cheap. But who'd
- think salvation could lie in a novel titled Nude Men? A first
- effort from French ex-pat Amanda Filipacchi, 25, Nude Men (Viking)
- features a preteen childlike enough to appreciate Disney World
- and precocious enough to quote Oscar Wilde while seducing men
- for whom high school is a nebulous memory. "When people ask
- me what this book is about, I just say it's like Lolita," Amanda
- confesses, "but actually I've never read Lolita." Critics are
- making more knowing Nabokov comparisons and lauding the book
- for its own surreal quirkiness. As a kid Amanda dreamed of composing
- "trashy, commercial fiction." Nude Men doesn't qualify, but
- for a world addicted to Hard Copy, it serves as painless rehab.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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