Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0008326, Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:31:42 -0700

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Illustrated Nabokov?
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EDNOTE. For the time being at least we must e content with the fine
photographs provided by Gennady Barabtarlo, Horst Tappe, & Dieter Zimmer.

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From: "Phil Howerton" <phil@carolina.rr.com>
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> My earlier fluff on a picture of Glory's ending started me wondering
> whatever happened to the illustrated novel. Didn't serious editions of
> Dickens, for example, have illustrations? Robinson Crusoe? At least in
the
> frontispiece? Stood instead, I assume, for the jacket and paperback
covers
> we have today. Where is A. B. Frost when we need him? Wonder what a
> Nabokov novel, Gift, say, would look and read like with illustrations by a
> fine artist? Jeff Edmunds, take note.
> Judge Philip F. Howerton, Jr.
> 2812 Sunset Drive
> Charlotte, NC 28209
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> "To be proud, to be brave, to be free." Vladimir Nabokov
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> > From: "Phil Howerton" <phil@carolina.rr.com>
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> > > Thirty years or so ago, when I had first started reading Nabokov, and
> > still
> > > a Romantic, I was so struck by the ending of Glory--those black fir
> > needles,
> > > the falling snow, the dingy air, that creaking wicket, the lonely
> > Titmouse,
> > > tsi-tsi, incha-incha; that perfect sense of sadness and loss--that I
> typed
> > > out the page and asked an artist friend of mine to draw me a picture
of
> > it.
> > > I still think about it occasionally. Unfortunately, she never did it.
> > >
> > > Phil
> > >
> > > Judge Philip F. Howerton, Jr.
> > > 2812 Sunset Drive
> > > Charlotte, NC 28209
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