Phyllis Roth
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"D. Barton Johnson" wrote:
EDNOTE: Although it is hard to think of two more diverse writers than Joyce Carole Oates and VN both write with enormous awareness of literary tradition. Oates has been widely translated into Russian (even in Soviet times). One of her early novels, EXPENSIVE PEOPLE, has recently been retranslated and republished there. The new translation is by Olga Kirichenko who did a recent translation of Nabokov's ADA. Literary critic Nikolai Mel'nikov provides an extended review in the venerable journal NOVYI MIR (Nov. 2002). For Russian-reading subscribers to NABOKV-L, I have excerpted his comments on the VN-JCO connection. Those wishing to read the full text are referred to