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HAL PORTER: THE WATCHER WITH A CAST-IRON ALIBI.(Review)
IN HAL PORTER'S 1965 story "Young Woman in a Wimple", the narrator is sitting in a train compartment reading a smuggled-in copy of Vladimir Nabokov's banned novel Lolita "which, in its remade brown paper jacket, looked exactly like a banned book--probably Lolita".
A nice irony, but there's surely a thesis or three to be written about the significance of the books that fiction writers choose to have their characters read. Porter's self-described "Early Incandescent" prose style (no less Incandescent later in his life) resembles the style of few other writers as much as Nabokov's. Whole chunks of their autobiographies, in particular, seem stylistically ...
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