Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0018001, Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:04:50 -0500

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Re: Giving up DEFENSE]
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SK-B: I'm trying hard to recall where VN wrote "I've said all I have
to say," to whom and about which topic. I expect many will rush to
remind me.

This was the last sentence from "Reply to My Critics," the article taking
apart Edmund Wilson's criticism of his *Eugene Onegin:*

"His article, entirely consisting, as I have shown, of quibbles and
blunders, can be damaging only to his own reputation--and that is the last
look I shall ever take at the dismal scene."

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark05@mail.ru>wrote:

> >I'm trying hard to recall where VN wrote "I've said all I have
> to say," to whom and about which topic. I expect many will rush to
> remind me.
>
> Stan,
>
> I believe it was Tolstoy who gave a similar answer when asked by an
> interviewer what was the main idea of Anna Karenina ("the main idea of the
> novel Anna Karenina is the novel Anna Karenina"). I don't remember where
> VN employs a similar formula. If he does, it must be in Strong Opinions.
>
> >Prof HMG (a most
> authoritarian abbreviation) whom I plan to pursue (platonically, of
> course, unlike Kinbote after his alter-ego Shade!)
>
> Pity, because you could email him a line from Faust's monologue: *Und
> fluch for allen der Geduld!* ("And cursed be Patience most of all!"). By a
> coincidence, I came across this line (not in Goethe, but in A. K. Tolstoy's
> poem addressed to Carolyn's namesake, the poet Karolina Pavlova, who had
> difficulties with this line's translation) on the same evening when Prof HGM
> was first mentioned on our List.
>
> Alexey
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