Culture & Religion — April 15, 2010

Lines of Genius

Elif Batuman unearths seven unproduced screenplays written by famous intellectuals, including Nabokov’s story of a sexually frustrated London circus dwarf, and Sartre’s failed Freud epic.

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Elif Batuman looks at seven unproduced screenplays written by famous intellectuals, including Nabokov’s “phenomenally depressing” story of a sexually frustrated London circus dwarf, and Sartre’s failed Freud epic. Other would-be screenwriters include Winston Churchill, Aldous Huxley, Georges Bataille, Russian artist Kasimir Malevich, and Frankfurt school philosophers Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.

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