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Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:43:42 -0400
From: "Victoria N. Alexander" <alexander@dactyl.org>
Reply-To: "Victoria N. Alexander" <alexander@dactyl.org>
Subject: Joyce and Nabokov
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
A while ago the Nabokov list took up the subject of comparison between
Joyce and Nabokov, which probably happens every so often. At the time,
I wanted to mention Martin Amis' PEN address, but memory failed me of
details. I'm currently writing an article in which I want to quote
that lecture, so I got around to looking it up. It' s available online
as a recording and as text at
http://martinamis.albion.edu/amisnabokov.htm
Here's a snip:
"Nabokov wants to embrace his readers.... He comes across as this
snorting wizard of hauteur, but he is the dream host, always giving us
on our visits his best chair and his best wine. What would Joyce do?
Let's think, he would call out vaguely from the kitchen, asking you to
wait a couple of hours for the final fermentation of a home-brewed
punch made out of grenadine, conger eels and sheep dip."
I recommend it. It's short, precise, and funny.
Tori
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On Aug 18, 2005, at 7:27 PM, Donald B. Johnson wrote:
> EDNOTE. Sam Schuman is one of the founding members of the Vladimir
> Nabokov
> Society.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> ----- Forwarded message from schumans@morris.umn.edu -----
> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:10:05 -0500
> From: sam schuman <schumans@morris.umn.edu>
> Reply-To: sam schuman <schumans@morris.umn.edu>
> Subject: My first time with LOLITA
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
>
> Like many another adolescent in the late 1950's my first time with
> Lolita was a major disappointment: I was looking for a dirty book,
> and only found a great one. My first serious encounter with the
> novel came some years later, when I was teaching freshman composition
> at Northwestern University, under the directorship of Alfred Appel.
> My wife and young children and I spent a summer in Yorkshire, at the
> home of another Northwestern colleague, and I picked up The Annotated
> Lolita because I was curious about the scholarship of my supervisor.
> A few days later, I finished the book, dashed to the local bookshop,
> and purchased everything by Nabokov they had for sale.
> --
> Sam
>
> Samuel Schuman
> Chancellor
> The University of Minnesota, Morris
> Morris, MN 56267
> schumans@morris.umn.edu
> 320-589-6020
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> Like many another adolescent in the late 1950's my first time with
> Lolita was a major disappointment: I was looking for a dirty book,
> and only found a great one. My first serious encounter with the novel
> came some years later, when I was teaching freshman composition at
> Northwestern University, under the directorship of Alfred Appel. My
> wife and young children and I spent a summer in Yorkshire, at the home
> of another Northwestern colleague, and I picked up The Annotated
> Lolita because I was curious about the scholarship of my supervisor.
> A few days later, I finished the book, dashed to the local bookshop,
> and purchased everything by Nabokov they had for sale.
> --
>
>
> Sam
>
> Samuel Schuman
> Chancellor
> The University of Minnesota, Morris
> Morris, MN 56267
> schumans@morris.umn.edu
> 320-589-6020
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