Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0002170, Mon, 9 Jun 1997 10:43:04 -0700

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E. Orsenna (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. Bernard Kreise is a member of the Editorial Board for the
Pleiade edition of VN's collected works. If one of NABOKV-L's subscribers
wants to do some summer reading in French, the list would appreciate a
fuller account of the novel.

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Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 08:22:07 +0730
To: nabokv-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
Subject: E. Orsenna

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From: Bernard Kreise <bkreise@pratique.fr>

The new novel of the French writer Erik Orsenna (Prix Goncourt 1988) "Deux
étés" is based on the true story of the translation of ADA into french by
Gilles Chahine. All the inhabitants of an island in Brittany, where the
translator is living, decide to help him because he is extremely late. His
editor is in a hurry, because he expects Vn will receive the Nobel prize.
This short novel is rather pleasant, but superficial.

Bernard Kreise