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From: "yuri leving" <leving@usc.edu>
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> Whether Nabokov’s words to his German interviewer were said as a matter of
courtesy or were a nice PR move having in mind those “post-war era German
critics [who] have understood and appreciated my books,” the writer in fact
was far more consistent, as one may suggest, in his private life. In a
letter to his best school friend, living in Palestine, Nabokov states most
boldly: “Whole Germany must be burnt to ashes several times in a row in
order to quench my hatred to it at least slightly, when I am thinking of
those perished in Poland” (from the unpublished letter of X.24.1945 to S.
Rozov, Russian original in private collection).
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> Yuri Leving
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From: "yuri leving" <leving@usc.edu>
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> Whether Nabokov’s words to his German interviewer were said as a matter of
courtesy or were a nice PR move having in mind those “post-war era German
critics [who] have understood and appreciated my books,” the writer in fact
was far more consistent, as one may suggest, in his private life. In a
letter to his best school friend, living in Palestine, Nabokov states most
boldly: “Whole Germany must be burnt to ashes several times in a row in
order to quench my hatred to it at least slightly, when I am thinking of
those perished in Poland” (from the unpublished letter of X.24.1945 to S.
Rozov, Russian original in private collection).
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> Yuri Leving
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