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The U.S. Customs, which immaturely barred Ulysses, finds nothing legally obscene in Lolita. But the mature French Ministry of the Interior, apparently pressured by the British Home Secretary, has brought suit to prevent the continued French publication of Lolita on the ground that it is falling into the hands of immature British and American tourists. Nabokov is happily busy with a less controversial work of art, his 2,000-page translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.