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Re Maxim Shrayer, DN, & Nikolai Mel'nikov
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From: "Anatoly Vorobey" <mellon@pobox.com>
To: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >> Maxim Shrayer wrote:
> >>
> >> >> Dmitri Nabokov's characterization of Nikolai Melnikov
> >> >> is actually rather charitable given the anti-Semitic
> >> >> and blasphemous comments this individual has made in
> >> >> connection with the Jewish themes (especially the
> >> >> Shoah) in the writings of Vladimir Nabokov. I
> >> >> attach Melnikov's review of my book "Nabokov: temy i
> >> >> variatsii" (Nabokov: Themes and Variations, 2000)
> >> >> and my response. It's old hat by now, but I
> >> >> thought I'd share it with the list. I'm sorry that
> >> >> both Melnikov's review and my response are in
> >> >> Russian and therefore inaccessible to some of the
> >> >> list's subscribers:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/shranlo.htm
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Anatoly Vorobey comments:
There is no anti-Semitism in Melnikov's review (available in
Russian at http://nlo.magazine.ru/archive/267.html ), though I'd
grant that there is a lot of "anti-Shrayerism" there. Why would anyone
want to confuse the latter with the former, or to endorse DN's choice of
epithets (I omit my true opinion thereof at the request of the moderator),
is a question I'd rather not speculate about.
[P.S. I don't know anything about Melnikov beyond having read these two
articles of him - the review of Shrayer's book at
http://nlo.magazine.ru/archive/267.html, and the review of Zverev's book at
http://magazines.russ.ru/novyi_mi/2003/7/meln.html. For all I know he may be
all that DN says, but these two items certainly don't qualify as evidence
for that.]
> --
> Anatoly Vorobey,
> my journal (in Russian): http://www.livejournal.com/users/avva/
> mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/
> "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton
>
>
From: "Anatoly Vorobey" <mellon@pobox.com>
To: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >> Maxim Shrayer wrote:
> >>
> >> >> Dmitri Nabokov's characterization of Nikolai Melnikov
> >> >> is actually rather charitable given the anti-Semitic
> >> >> and blasphemous comments this individual has made in
> >> >> connection with the Jewish themes (especially the
> >> >> Shoah) in the writings of Vladimir Nabokov. I
> >> >> attach Melnikov's review of my book "Nabokov: temy i
> >> >> variatsii" (Nabokov: Themes and Variations, 2000)
> >> >> and my response. It's old hat by now, but I
> >> >> thought I'd share it with the list. I'm sorry that
> >> >> both Melnikov's review and my response are in
> >> >> Russian and therefore inaccessible to some of the
> >> >> list's subscribers:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/shranlo.htm
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Anatoly Vorobey comments:
There is no anti-Semitism in Melnikov's review (available in
Russian at http://nlo.magazine.ru/archive/267.html ), though I'd
grant that there is a lot of "anti-Shrayerism" there. Why would anyone
want to confuse the latter with the former, or to endorse DN's choice of
epithets (I omit my true opinion thereof at the request of the moderator),
is a question I'd rather not speculate about.
[P.S. I don't know anything about Melnikov beyond having read these two
articles of him - the review of Shrayer's book at
http://nlo.magazine.ru/archive/267.html, and the review of Zverev's book at
http://magazines.russ.ru/novyi_mi/2003/7/meln.html. For all I know he may be
all that DN says, but these two items certainly don't qualify as evidence
for that.]
> --
> Anatoly Vorobey,
> my journal (in Russian): http://www.livejournal.com/users/avva/
> mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/
> "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton
>
>