ationship between the chronology of Lolita and Quilty's murder is similarly scrutinized by the lively forum in Nabokov Studies which finds more pieces to put into the puzzle. The carefully laid argument of the scholar Alexander Dolinin finally throws its impressive weight behind special emphases on critical dates found only in Nabokov's Russian translation. Julian Connolly reviews all of the arguments, inclines toward Tekiner's hypothesis, but backs away from endorsing her supposition ("If indeed Humbert's murder of Quilty is a psychological event"). Brian Boyd, the Nabokov biographer, rises above himself and the artist on whom he has built his critical reputation as he dismisses "revisionists" who "build whole-scale interpretations on details that seem much more explicable as [Nabokov's] errors." (7) Nabokov means the deviant "details" to be noticed and to carry significance in his elaborately elusive text. If one rearranges their dramatic development, a solution to the puzzle emerges which makes the anomaly less vexing and enables a more preci
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