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Michael,
VN first makes the "monist" remark in his 1966 interview with Appel SO
(84). The
TIME interviewers (Duffy & Sheppard)asked for an elaboration in March 1969 (SO
124).
Don Johnson
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QM\uoting NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU>:
> [EDNOTE. VN made that remark in a lengthy interview with Alfred Appel
> Jr. (for Contemporary Literature), p. 85 of the Vintage ed. The broader
> context for the remark, with regard to symmetry, is VN's possibly
> facetious rejection of the "Doppelganger subject" as a "frightful bore"
> earlier in the interview (p. 83). By the way, Stephen Blackwell has
> done research, I believe, on VN's knowledge of monism. Would you care
> to comment, Steve? -- SES]
>
> Dear Ed, on p124 of Strong Opinions (Vintage), an interviewer reminds
> Nabokov that the latter once styled himself "an indivisible monist."
> This
> would appear to go to the heart of the way Nabokov saw the world. -
> Does
> any member of the forum know where Nabokov's remark was originally
> published?
> many thanks
> michael glynn
>
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VN first makes the "monist" remark in his 1966 interview with Appel SO
(84). The
TIME interviewers (Duffy & Sheppard)asked for an elaboration in March 1969 (SO
124).
Don Johnson
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QM\uoting NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU>:
> [EDNOTE. VN made that remark in a lengthy interview with Alfred Appel
> Jr. (for Contemporary Literature), p. 85 of the Vintage ed. The broader
> context for the remark, with regard to symmetry, is VN's possibly
> facetious rejection of the "Doppelganger subject" as a "frightful bore"
> earlier in the interview (p. 83). By the way, Stephen Blackwell has
> done research, I believe, on VN's knowledge of monism. Would you care
> to comment, Steve? -- SES]
>
> Dear Ed, on p124 of Strong Opinions (Vintage), an interviewer reminds
> Nabokov that the latter once styled himself "an indivisible monist."
> This
> would appear to go to the heart of the way Nabokov saw the world. -
> Does
> any member of the forum know where Nabokov's remark was originally
> published?
> many thanks
> michael glynn
>
> Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
> Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
> Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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