GREENE GRAHAM: (1904-1991)

GREENE GRAHAM: (1904-1991) English novelist. T.L.S., Graham Greene, one page, 8vo, Albany, London, 12th October 1959, to Dr. Piney. Greene informs his correspondent that he is not an admirer of Jean Genet´s Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs ´and find the scatalogical atmosphere repulsive´, further adding ´However the book was linked with LOLITA which I admire and Genet has a high reputation in France´ and concluding by stating ´You will find that the letter to the French Ministry of the Interior was also supported by that most respectable body the PEN Club!´. A letter of interesting content. Some light, minor creasing, otherwise VG

Jean Genet (1910-1986) French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist whose debut novel was Our Lady of the Flowers (Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs, 1943).

Lolita (1955) is a novel written by the Russian author Vladimir Nabokov in which the protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor. The work was first published in Paris in 1955, despite being written in English.