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[quote=Anonymous]So I was curious so I went and got the novel, which is actually pretty great.  The idea is that she's playing with all the tropes you find in classic literature where the man falls for a younger ingenue.  I was the one who said Vlad seemed kind of boring and dull in the movie -- but what you become aware of in the novel is that most of the fantasy takes place in her mind, and just like when you have an older colleague who goes on and on about his brilliant twenty something girlfriend who is wise beyond her years, it's pretty obvious that she's projecting.  She seems what she wants to see.  Honestly, in the novel she comes a bit more unhinged and stalkerish, going to visit the former girlfriend who works in the bakery, etc, stealing the files.  But it's very Nabokovian, which is probably why she named it Vladimir and made him Russian, etc.  There are overtones of Lolita and nabokov also slept with his students (taught at Wellesley for awhile) and wrote academic novels about college campuses.  The novel is much more explicitly satirical, with the caricature of the politically correct college professor who has an open marriage and gay daughter, etc. etc. etc.  Anyway, some of the choices in the TV series made more sense to me once I read the novel.[/quote]

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