La portada de ‘Dr Jekyll’ que va ofendre Nabokov

[Especial: Setmana Nabokov/1]

Aquesta és la portada, de Pocket Books edition, del clàssic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde de Robert Louis Stevenson, que Vladimir Nabokov va desaconsellar contemplar als seus alumnes de Cornell tal com recull a Lectures on Literature (pàg. 179).

First of all, if you have the Pocket Books edition I have, you will veil the monstrous, abominable, atrocious, criminal, foul, vile, youth-depraving jacket – or better say straitjacket. You will ignore the fact that ham actors under the direction of pork packers have acted in a parody of the book, which parody was then photographed on a film and showed in places called theatres; it seems to me that to call a movie house a theatre is the same as to call an undertaker a mortician.

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