Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0008413, Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:54:45 -0700

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From: "Mary Krimmel" <mary@krimmel.net>
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> Whether VN had read any of Edgar Rice Burroughs' s stories or whether
> Burroughs was familiar with the story of Charlotte Corday, I don't know.
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> From Burroughs's "Memoirs of Lord Greystroke":
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> "...D arranged ...to get me a passport. My borrowed identity was that of a
> Monsieur Jeanne Charles Corday, a Norman trader..."
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> There are a couple of paragraphs about Corday, who had been out of France
> fourteen years and had no relatives but I see nothing that suggests
> Charlotte or that would particularly recommend itself to VN.
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> The latter point is irrelevant, though, since I never notice things that
> would recommend themselves to VN until I find them while reading him.
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> Mary Krimmel
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