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Re: Ageyev's _Novel with Cocaine_ (fwd)
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At 14:13 29.05.98 -0700, you wrote:
>EDITOR's NOTE. The identity of M. Ageyev has been firmly established as I
>recall, but I don't remember where I read about it. Can anyone help with
>this?
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>From: Anton Nikkilä <anton.nikkila@pp.inet.fi>
>
>
>I am translating M. Ageyev's Roman s kokainom from Russian into Finnish,
>and I am trying to find information about Ageyev's identity. I have read
>your article "Nabokov and M. Ageyev's Novel with Cocaine", as well as
>Nikita Struve's "Roman-zagadka", Raoul Eshelman's "Why People Stupefy
>Themselves", and prefaces to the first Soviet publication of the novel (by
>Dmitri Volchek in Rodnik magazine) and the English (by Michael Henry Heim)
>and Swedish (by Hans Björkegren) translations of the book.
>All these articles are from mid-to-late 80's, and I'm wondering if anything
>new has come up since then concerning Ageyev's "biography". Volchek, for
>example, mentioned Gabriel Superfin's hypothesis that the novel is
>autobiographical and the author's name could be found by going through the
>lists of students in Moscow University's law faculty and Kreimanskaya
>gimnaziya (in which Superfin believes "Maslennikov" studied) in 1915-1919.
>I would be very thankful if you could point me to any other sources or
>share any information you might have.
>
>Anton Nikkila
>
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 02:01:11 +0400
From: "Sergey B. Il'yn" <isb@glas.apc.org>
See "The Nabokovian" #38 (Spring 1997), p. 52 "VN, Agheyev and 'Novel With
Cocaine" by Thomas Ufban, Warsaw, about Mark Levi (pseud. Agheyev) who died
in Yerevan on August, 5, 1973.
Sergey Il'yn
Nashe delo veseloe
At 14:13 29.05.98 -0700, you wrote:
>EDITOR's NOTE. The identity of M. Ageyev has been firmly established as I
>recall, but I don't remember where I read about it. Can anyone help with
>this?
>-----------------------------------------
>From: Anton Nikkilä <anton.nikkila@pp.inet.fi>
>
>
>I am translating M. Ageyev's Roman s kokainom from Russian into Finnish,
>and I am trying to find information about Ageyev's identity. I have read
>your article "Nabokov and M. Ageyev's Novel with Cocaine", as well as
>Nikita Struve's "Roman-zagadka", Raoul Eshelman's "Why People Stupefy
>Themselves", and prefaces to the first Soviet publication of the novel (by
>Dmitri Volchek in Rodnik magazine) and the English (by Michael Henry Heim)
>and Swedish (by Hans Björkegren) translations of the book.
>All these articles are from mid-to-late 80's, and I'm wondering if anything
>new has come up since then concerning Ageyev's "biography". Volchek, for
>example, mentioned Gabriel Superfin's hypothesis that the novel is
>autobiographical and the author's name could be found by going through the
>lists of students in Moscow University's law faculty and Kreimanskaya
>gimnaziya (in which Superfin believes "Maslennikov" studied) in 1915-1919.
>I would be very thankful if you could point me to any other sources or
>share any information you might have.
>
>Anton Nikkila
>
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 02:01:11 +0400
From: "Sergey B. Il'yn" <isb@glas.apc.org>
See "The Nabokovian" #38 (Spring 1997), p. 52 "VN, Agheyev and 'Novel With
Cocaine" by Thomas Ufban, Warsaw, about Mark Levi (pseud. Agheyev) who died
in Yerevan on August, 5, 1973.
Sergey Il'yn
Nashe delo veseloe