“I have just received the five designs and I quite agree with you that none of them is satisfactory,” he wrote. Minton sent Nabokov some sent him some drafts. Do you think it could be possible to find today in New York an artist who would not be influenced in his work by the general cartoonesque and primitivist style jacket illustration? Who would be capable of creating a romantic, delicately drawn, non-Freudian and non-juvenile, picture for LOLITA (a dissolving remoteness, a soft American landscape, a nostalgic highway-that sort of thing)? There is one subject which I am emphatically opposed to: any kind of representation of a little girl. “What about the jacket?” he wrote.Īfter thinking it over, I would rather not involve butterflies. Minton at Putnam, about the cover for his forthcoming novel, Lolita. In 1958, Nabokov wrote to his new American publisher, Walter J.
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