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Field gave nothing to the Berg, What is there of his work are the two typescripts of his Nabokov: His Life in Part, marked up by Nabokov, and the typescripts of corrections, several hundreds of pages, requested by Nabokov.
Brian Boyd
On 1/03/2015, at 2:22 pm, Jansy Mello <jansy.mello@OUTLOOK.COM<mailto:jansy.mello@OUTLOOK.COM>> wrote:
If Andrew Field’s files are at the Berg perhaps his original transcription of the tapes might be there, too. It makes sense to me to suppose A.Field had the tapes transcribed at that time before he set to work on them. Lots of off the cuff material just lying in wait?
Let’s hope so.
De: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] Em nome de Brian Boyd
Enviada em: sábado, 28 de fevereiro de 2015 19:32
Para: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU<mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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Option c would have been my first guess, merely because I hadn't had occasion to consult Field for about a quarter-century and because Nabokov knew that a biography could be an important part of his after-image and he didn’t want his casual (and therefore to his taste eminently revisable) reminiscences to be immortalised there. But I had forgotten Field, Life in Art, p. 11, where Field writes “On occasion I used a recording machine, most often not.” VN’s own response at this point in Field’s typescript was to change to: “On occasion—three or four times, perhaps.”
As Germany’s Mr Nabokovian, Dieter E. Zimmer, often warned readers in Die Zeit, electronic media are far from durable. Whether 45-year-old tapes recorded before good noise-reduction mechanisms had been commericalized would now yield transcribable dialogue I don’t know. I recall Field suffering flood damage to his archive at some point.
Brian Boyd
On 1/03/2015, at 8:37 am, frances assa <franassa@HOTMAIL.COM<mailto:franassa@HOTMAIL.COM>> wrote:
Dear Brian,
If there are no tapes, that implies that
a. they were erased, or
b. they were lost or disposed of, or
c. they never existed to begin with.
Is there any information on any of these options?
Thanks much, Fran
________________________________
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 05:10:51 +0000
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Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] Andrew Field's Archive
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As far as I know, there are no tapes. There’s a written biographical interview; Nabokov was even less inclined to speak off the cuff, to have his causal words set down in permanent form, when he was talking about his past, his county, his family.
Brian Boyd
On 28/02/2015, at 3:06 pm, Alex Beam <alexbeam@HOTMAIL.COM<mailto:alexbeam@HOTMAIL.COM>> wrote:
Some of Field's stuff is at the Berg, at the NYPL. I'd be very curious to know what happened to the tapes.
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:31:57 -0600
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Subject: [NABOKV-L] Andrew Field's Archive
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I'm wondering if anyone knows of the location of Andrew Field's Nabokov materials that were auctioned some time ago. Does anyone know whether the materials contained the tapes of Field's interviews with Nabokov?
Thank you very much! Fran Assa
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On 1/03/2015, at 2:22 pm, Jansy Mello <jansy.mello@OUTLOOK.COM<mailto:jansy.mello@OUTLOOK.COM>> wrote:
If Andrew Field’s files are at the Berg perhaps his original transcription of the tapes might be there, too. It makes sense to me to suppose A.Field had the tapes transcribed at that time before he set to work on them. Lots of off the cuff material just lying in wait?
Let’s hope so.
De: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] Em nome de Brian Boyd
Enviada em: sábado, 28 de fevereiro de 2015 19:32
Para: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU<mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Assunto: Re: [NABOKV-L] Andrew Field's Archive
Option c would have been my first guess, merely because I hadn't had occasion to consult Field for about a quarter-century and because Nabokov knew that a biography could be an important part of his after-image and he didn’t want his casual (and therefore to his taste eminently revisable) reminiscences to be immortalised there. But I had forgotten Field, Life in Art, p. 11, where Field writes “On occasion I used a recording machine, most often not.” VN’s own response at this point in Field’s typescript was to change to: “On occasion—three or four times, perhaps.”
As Germany’s Mr Nabokovian, Dieter E. Zimmer, often warned readers in Die Zeit, electronic media are far from durable. Whether 45-year-old tapes recorded before good noise-reduction mechanisms had been commericalized would now yield transcribable dialogue I don’t know. I recall Field suffering flood damage to his archive at some point.
Brian Boyd
On 1/03/2015, at 8:37 am, frances assa <franassa@HOTMAIL.COM<mailto:franassa@HOTMAIL.COM>> wrote:
Dear Brian,
If there are no tapes, that implies that
a. they were erased, or
b. they were lost or disposed of, or
c. they never existed to begin with.
Is there any information on any of these options?
Thanks much, Fran
________________________________
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 05:10:51 +0000
From: b.boyd@AUCKLAND.AC.NZ<mailto:b.boyd@AUCKLAND.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] Andrew Field's Archive
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU<mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
As far as I know, there are no tapes. There’s a written biographical interview; Nabokov was even less inclined to speak off the cuff, to have his causal words set down in permanent form, when he was talking about his past, his county, his family.
Brian Boyd
On 28/02/2015, at 3:06 pm, Alex Beam <alexbeam@HOTMAIL.COM<mailto:alexbeam@HOTMAIL.COM>> wrote:
Some of Field's stuff is at the Berg, at the NYPL. I'd be very curious to know what happened to the tapes.
________________________________
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:31:57 -0600
From: franassa@HOTMAIL.COM<mailto:franassa@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: [NABOKV-L] Andrew Field's Archive
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Dear List,
I'm wondering if anyone knows of the location of Andrew Field's Nabokov materials that were auctioned some time ago. Does anyone know whether the materials contained the tapes of Field's interviews with Nabokov?
Thank you very much! Fran Assa
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