Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011833, Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:58:17 -0700

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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:01:28 -0800
From: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: mythmaking
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum


(From Sergey Karpukhin's earlier posting):
I'd suggest that Alexander Dolinin's work is very important in the context
of contemporary Russian culture in that it forms the basis of a 'Russian'
understanding of VN's work (which does not prevent it from being interesting
to non-Slavists). There is, if you will, a cultural meaning to Dolinin's
work.


Dear Sergey Karpukhin,

As a non Slavist (well nearly non Slavist) I can back up your claim. My copy
of the Cambridge Companion arrived on Friday and I read the Dolinin piece
with great interest. He does contribute a cultural context to Nabokov's work
that I had not really seen it in before.

Carolyn

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