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[Fwd: Re: Nabokov's admirers: Anthony Burgess
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> Anthony Burgess' work shows rather less evidence of VN's "influence" than most other contemporaries,
> although he and VN admired each other.
Actually, I find a strong similarity between the two, especially in
respect
of their manifest enjoyment of surprising figures and constructions. I
quote one of Burgess'
from what is probably a defective memory of INSIDE MR ENDERBY: "His
breath smelt startlingly of
(startling because few hosts serve, owing to the known redolence of
onions, onions) onions."
Well, there's a bit of showing off here as well. But then The Master is
not
without a touch of that.
Cheers,
Wayne Daniels
790 Ashley Avenue
Burlington, ON
Canada L7R 2Z6
tel: (905) 639-0173
e-mail: w.r.daniels@home.com
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EDITOR's NOTE. Somewhere Burgess acknowledges that one of his relatively
early novels was strongly influenced by VN. I've forgotten which
(although I have a full set) but it was not "M/F" which was enormously
clever and struck me as VN + Levi-Strauss.
> Anthony Burgess' work shows rather less evidence of VN's "influence" than most other contemporaries,
> although he and VN admired each other.
Actually, I find a strong similarity between the two, especially in
respect
of their manifest enjoyment of surprising figures and constructions. I
quote one of Burgess'
from what is probably a defective memory of INSIDE MR ENDERBY: "His
breath smelt startlingly of
(startling because few hosts serve, owing to the known redolence of
onions, onions) onions."
Well, there's a bit of showing off here as well. But then The Master is
not
without a touch of that.
Cheers,
Wayne Daniels
790 Ashley Avenue
Burlington, ON
Canada L7R 2Z6
tel: (905) 639-0173
e-mail: w.r.daniels@home.com
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EDITOR's NOTE. Somewhere Burgess acknowledges that one of his relatively
early novels was strongly influenced by VN. I've forgotten which
(although I have a full set) but it was not "M/F" which was enormously
clever and struck me as VN + Levi-Strauss.