The Times пишет о возможном прототипе Лолиты (русский перевод). ссылаются на Долинина причём.
update: удивительно не то, что — вроде бы — найден прототип, а то, что о таком достаточно малоинтересном широкой публике факте сначала написали в «Таймсе», а потом ещё и перевели в «Инопрессе», откуда статья расползлась дальше по рунету (я наткнулся в ленте украинского «Корреспондента»).
sea_scape цитирует интервью Набокова:
Did Humbert Humbert, the middle-aged seducer, have any original?
No. He's a man I devised, a man with an obsession, and I think many of my characters have sudden obsessions, different kinds of obsessions; but he never existed. He did exist after I had written the book. While I was writing the book, here and there in a newspaper I would read all sorts of accounts about elderly gentlemen who pursued little girls: a kind of interesting coincidence but that's about all.
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Date: 2005-09-14 04:21 pm (UTC)original?
No. He's a man I devised, a man with an obsession, and I
think many of my characters have sudden obsessions, different
kinds of obsessions; but he never existed. He did exist after I
had written the book. While I was writing the book, here and
there in a newspaper I would read all sorts of accounts about
elderly gentlemen who pursued little girls: a kind of
interesting coincidence but that's about all.
Did Lolita herself have an original?
No, Lolita didn't have any original. She was born in my
own mind. She never existed. As a matter of fact, I don't know
little girls very well. When I consider this subject, I don't
think I know a single little girl. I've met them socially now
and then, but Lolita is a figment of my imagination.
(Из интервью Набокова телевидению Би-би-си, 1962 г.)
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Date: 2005-09-14 04:28 pm (UTC)кстати, надо бы прочитать.
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Date: 2005-09-23 12:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-23 02:08 pm (UTC)Что касается Долинина, то, думаю, Вы высказались излишне резко. Хотя, разумеется, искать "прототипы Лолиты" - просто глупо.