I made a mistake. I wrote Montesquieu instead of
Montaigne.
It is corrected in the re-forwarded message below.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:47 PM
Subject: [Query] Homage to Pushkin and Nabokov
Dear List,
I was intrigued by a quote by VN, on
Montaigne, Pushkin and Cicero ( kindly forwarded to me by Matt Roth) in his
commentary about Apuleius:
"This
once-famous romance, dealing with the narrator's adventures when he is
transformed into a donkey, contains
some brilliant erotic images, but, on the
whole, strikes the reader of today as even more boring than Cicero seemed to
Pushkin in 1815--or to Montaigne
in 1580"
I was wondering if VN was
seriously disparaging Cicero and Apuleius, as this quote seems to imply.
Information and opinions are invited!
While I was using Google-tools I came across an
article and I wonder if it has already been mentioned as a VN sighting ( its
date online is 2002, it was written in 1999):
17 Dec 2002
Russian Review
Volume 58
Issue 4 Page 535-547, October 1999
To cite this article: Julie W Sherbinin (1999)
Pushkin's "Flying Creations": Fowl Play in Evgenii
Onegin
Russian Review 58 (4), 535–547.
doi:10.1111/0036-0341.00091
Abstract
The
Russian Review Pays Irreverent Homage to Pushkin and Nabokov
Pushkin's
"Flying Creations": Fowl Play in Evgenii Onegin
Julie W.
Sherbinin