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the VDN-Suvorin duel
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JM: we learn more about VN's father's planned duel against Alexis Suvórin (Tchekhov's editor friend and intricate links with )
I would like to learn more about this duel that hasn't been fought. Despite the fact that, in Drugie berega, VN mentions "Alexey Suvorin," it seems to me that the challenge from VDN was sent not to Alexey Suvorin pere (Chekhov's friend and publisher, who was seventy-seven in 1911), and not to his son Alexey Alexeyevich (Suvorin fils or, as Chekhov called him, "dolphin"), but to another son of the founder of the "Novoe Vremia" newspaper and publishing house, Mikhail Suvorin (1858-1936). This is confirmed by the information gleaned from this article: http://www.pseudology.org/Nabokov/Bio_papa.htm. Or is its author mistaken?
Jansy, you can not call VN's (or any other writer's) characters by their patronymics ("VN's own Petrovich")! True, one is sometimes allowed to address close friends "Palych" or "Vadimych". But both Timofey Pnin and Vadim Vadimovich of LATH who were spared a life in the Soviet Union would be terribly insulted if addressed that way.
Alexey
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I would like to learn more about this duel that hasn't been fought. Despite the fact that, in Drugie berega, VN mentions "Alexey Suvorin," it seems to me that the challenge from VDN was sent not to Alexey Suvorin pere (Chekhov's friend and publisher, who was seventy-seven in 1911), and not to his son Alexey Alexeyevich (Suvorin fils or, as Chekhov called him, "dolphin"), but to another son of the founder of the "Novoe Vremia" newspaper and publishing house, Mikhail Suvorin (1858-1936). This is confirmed by the information gleaned from this article: http://www.pseudology.org/Nabokov/Bio_papa.htm. Or is its author mistaken?
Jansy, you can not call VN's (or any other writer's) characters by their patronymics ("VN's own Petrovich")! True, one is sometimes allowed to address close friends "Palych" or "Vadimych". But both Timofey Pnin and Vadim Vadimovich of LATH who were spared a life in the Soviet Union would be terribly insulted if addressed that way.
Alexey
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