10-08-2007, 03:03 AM
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Fan d'Alizée (pour toujour)
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Buckley, WA (USA)
Age: 42
Posts: 2,345
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fsquared
You know, I started wondering just recently whether this was inspired to some extent by Mérimée's Carmen. I mean, I wondered, why a Barcelona prostitute? Apparently, in some imaginings of this story, Carmen is a prostitute. The original story places Carmen in Córdoba, though (wrong end of Spain).
One reason that this could be somehow relevant is that Nabokov's Lolita (the book) spends a lot of time mirroring and alluding to Mérimée's Carmen.
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Very interesting. I'm not nearly well vered enough in literature to spot or analyze anythign along these lines.
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