Dmitry was displeased

Victor Sonkin on Vladimir Nabokov's troubled literary estate:

Now another scandal is brewing. Dmitry Nabokov is suing Anatoly Livry, a Russian emigre scholar and writer based in Paris. Livry has achieved some critical acclaim for his publications in Russian literary journals. He has allegedly written a scholarly study, "Nabokov the Nietzschean," which Nabokov's estate is trying to ban. A brief investigation into the scandal revealed a heap of wild accusations from both sides. Suffice it to say that Livry has called Dmitry Nabokov "a small Oedipus still struggling with his father's shadow," while Nabokov has described Livry as a hardened criminal who once planned to kill and dismember his ex-wife and her lesbian lover.

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...Meanwhile, thanks to lawyer friends I have in Switzerland, certain details emerge regarding Livry's penal history. The reason for his arrest and expulsion from Switzerland was his written intention to murder and dismember his wife, discovered by the wife's Lesbian companion while Livry was off in Africa with a girlfriend. On his return, and his arrest at the French-Swiss border, Livry (apparently having learned a trick or two from Humbert) claimed it was only the draft of a story using names of convenience. By the way, both the "tycoon's daughter" wife and her friend turn out to be bisexual Basel hookers who advertise their services at 500 Euros a pop...........

Dmitri Nabokov

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