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[EDNOTE. Jansy Mello sends more information about tributes to VN for his
seventieth birthday. -- SES.]
From Maxim Shreyer on Newman and Nabokov's seventieth birthday:
"Newman published four books of fiction: New Axis (1966), The
Promisekeeper: A Tephramancy (1971), three short novels in the volume
There Must Be More Than Death (1976), and White Jazz (1984). His
best-known book, however, was The Post-Modern Aura (1985), which divided
contemporary novelists into “formalists” and “realists” and lamented the
failure of literary fiction to compete in the contemporary cultural
marketplace. You can get a sense of Newman’s style (and sense of humor)
in this review he wrote for the New York Times in 1988.His chief
distinction was his role in the creation of TriQuarterly. One memorable
issue that he edited (together with Alfred Appel) was a festschrift for
Vladimir Nabokov on the occasion of Nabokov’s 70th birthday in 1970.
Among the contributors were Robert Alter, George Steiner, Simon
Karlinksy, the Proffers, Stanley Elkin, Anthony Burgess, John Updike,
Alfred Kazin, John Barth, and many others, including Newman himself.
(Newman recounts carrying a rolled-up copy of Pale Fire in his pocket
through Army basic training.) You might enjoy Nabokov’s written response
to this issue, which includes some kind words for Newman’s contribution.
(Other contributors, like Steiner, weren’t quite as lucky.) TriQuarterly
had been knocking around Northwestern for years as a student and faculty
publication before Newman took the helm. But in Newman’s time it became
one of the truly great literary journals of the 20th Century. I just
thought it made sense to mark his passing. "A small Alpine form Tuesday,
August 31st, 2010 From The World of Nabokov’s Stories (1999), by Maxim
D. Shrayer:
Other references to Nabokov's 70th birthday celebrations: ...In October,
1971, Kurt Hoffman visited me in Montreux to film an interview for the
... given me on my seventieth birthday by my German publisher Heinrich
*... www.kulichki.com/moshkow/NABOKOW/Inter19.txt -
Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel Galya Diment - 1997 -
Biography & Autobiography - 202 páginas
In addition to making Nabokov laugh by imitating Szeftel's way of
speaking, ... issue devoted to Nabokov and occasioned by Nabokov's
seventieth birthday ...
books.google.com.br/books?isbn=0295976349...
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/
seventieth birthday. -- SES.]
From Maxim Shreyer on Newman and Nabokov's seventieth birthday:
"Newman published four books of fiction: New Axis (1966), The
Promisekeeper: A Tephramancy (1971), three short novels in the volume
There Must Be More Than Death (1976), and White Jazz (1984). His
best-known book, however, was The Post-Modern Aura (1985), which divided
contemporary novelists into “formalists” and “realists” and lamented the
failure of literary fiction to compete in the contemporary cultural
marketplace. You can get a sense of Newman’s style (and sense of humor)
in this review he wrote for the New York Times in 1988.His chief
distinction was his role in the creation of TriQuarterly. One memorable
issue that he edited (together with Alfred Appel) was a festschrift for
Vladimir Nabokov on the occasion of Nabokov’s 70th birthday in 1970.
Among the contributors were Robert Alter, George Steiner, Simon
Karlinksy, the Proffers, Stanley Elkin, Anthony Burgess, John Updike,
Alfred Kazin, John Barth, and many others, including Newman himself.
(Newman recounts carrying a rolled-up copy of Pale Fire in his pocket
through Army basic training.) You might enjoy Nabokov’s written response
to this issue, which includes some kind words for Newman’s contribution.
(Other contributors, like Steiner, weren’t quite as lucky.) TriQuarterly
had been knocking around Northwestern for years as a student and faculty
publication before Newman took the helm. But in Newman’s time it became
one of the truly great literary journals of the 20th Century. I just
thought it made sense to mark his passing. "A small Alpine form Tuesday,
August 31st, 2010 From The World of Nabokov’s Stories (1999), by Maxim
D. Shrayer:
Other references to Nabokov's 70th birthday celebrations: ...In October,
1971, Kurt Hoffman visited me in Montreux to film an interview for the
... given me on my seventieth birthday by my German publisher Heinrich
*... www.kulichki.com/moshkow/NABOKOW/Inter19.txt -
Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel Galya Diment - 1997 -
Biography & Autobiography - 202 páginas
In addition to making Nabokov laugh by imitating Szeftel's way of
speaking, ... issue devoted to Nabokov and occasioned by Nabokov's
seventieth birthday ...
books.google.com.br/books?isbn=0295976349...
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/