In Memoriam: Dieter E. Zimmer, by Stephen Blackwell
In Memoriam Dieter E. Zimmer
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Introducing a new feature: read classic articles from the archives of the print version of The Nabokovian. Selected by the site's editors, articles will be featured free of charge and will vary quarterly. Full access to all of the print and electronic issues of The Nabokovian are available on this site to members of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society (IVNS). To join, please go here.
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In Memoriam: English Translation and German original of Dieter E. Zimmer's 1959 review of LOLITA
To mark the occasion of Dieter E. Zimmer's passing away on June 19, 2020, Brian Boyd has translated into English Dieter's 1959 review of Lolita.
With Brian's permission, I am posting his English translation below (there is also a pdf version accessible here). The German original can be read below or in pdf here or in the context of Dieter's incomparable website.
DIE ZEIT/Literatur, Nr.42, 16 October 1959, pp.9-10
Dieter E. Zimmer Obituaries and Tributes from Germany
Dear Nabokovians:
In Memoriam: Dieter E. Zimmer (1934-2020) by Brian Boyd
Dieter Eduard Zimmer, essayist, editor, translator, an intellectually “incorruptible” “Renaissance man” (I quote from the German Wikipedia) and among much else Nabokov’s most important translator, editor, and longest-serving scholar, has died in Berlin on June 19, 2020, aged 85.
Nabokov Readings '20: Interview with Brian Boyd, July 3
This year's Nabokov Readings in St. Petersburg, Russia, will feature an open online interview with Brian Boyd. To submit a question for an online event scheduled to take place on July 3, please follow this link. The Russian GoogleDocs form linked here prompts you to enter a valid email address and type in your question (note: the separate blank field for questions is mislabeled "your answer" at the time of this post's publication).
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