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----- Original Message -----
From: James Twiggs
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 4:10 PM
Subject: Sontag & Nabokov
Sontag introduced Nabokov for a reading at the 92nd St Y in 1964. Nabokov then read a poem and selections from Pale Fire, Lolita, and a lecture on Russian poetry. The entire reading can be reached, and listened to, through this link:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nabokov.html
Or go to this link for a complete list of readings at the 92nd St Y, with access to all of them:
http://www.eyeshot.net/frame_links.htm
This is a wonderful site, by the way, with readings by a good many writers.
EDNOTE. Personally I am not a big fan of Ms Sontag's work, but any possible tie she might have had with VN is cerainly "fair game" for NABOKV-L. She was obviously a major in the intellectual clime of the Sixties & Seventies.
----- Original Message -----
From: Will Schultz
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 1:40 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Sontag
didn't Sontag also once write something about the "clear poetry of Mao (tse Tung)" , or something along those lines ? Does she really deserve this forum's attention ?
D. Barton Johnson wrote:
EDNOTE: Mr. Nicol is among the founding fathers of the International
Vladimir Nabokov.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Nicol" <ejnicol@scifac.indstate.edu>
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When Sontag's essay on Camp came out, I thought it was
somewhat relevant to Kinbote's sensibility in PALE FIRE.
Incidentally, while I was playing at a chess tournament in Kalamazoo,
circa 1965, Sontag gave a talk there which seemed mostly a list of
names of contemporary authors, composers, and painters who somehow
had earned her approval. In the questions period afterward, I
specifically asked why she had singled out Boulez and not Stockhausen
(she turned out to be right on that one), and why Borges and not
Nabokov. Her reply was basically along the lines of "Nabokov? No,
Borges." So she wasn't too impressed back then.
Chaz
Charles Nicol
Professor of English and Humanities
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
U.S.A.
(812) 237-3152
FAX (812) 237-3156
chaz@indstate.edu
"For me a work of fiction only exists insofar as it affords me
what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss..."
--Vladimir Nabokov
----- Original Message -----
From: James Twiggs
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 4:10 PM
Subject: Sontag & Nabokov
Sontag introduced Nabokov for a reading at the 92nd St Y in 1964. Nabokov then read a poem and selections from Pale Fire, Lolita, and a lecture on Russian poetry. The entire reading can be reached, and listened to, through this link:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nabokov.html
Or go to this link for a complete list of readings at the 92nd St Y, with access to all of them:
http://www.eyeshot.net/frame_links.htm
This is a wonderful site, by the way, with readings by a good many writers.
EDNOTE. Personally I am not a big fan of Ms Sontag's work, but any possible tie she might have had with VN is cerainly "fair game" for NABOKV-L. She was obviously a major in the intellectual clime of the Sixties & Seventies.
----- Original Message -----
From: Will Schultz
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 1:40 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Sontag
didn't Sontag also once write something about the "clear poetry of Mao (tse Tung)" , or something along those lines ? Does she really deserve this forum's attention ?
D. Barton Johnson wrote:
EDNOTE: Mr. Nicol is among the founding fathers of the International
Vladimir Nabokov.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Nicol" <ejnicol@scifac.indstate.edu>
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When Sontag's essay on Camp came out, I thought it was
somewhat relevant to Kinbote's sensibility in PALE FIRE.
Incidentally, while I was playing at a chess tournament in Kalamazoo,
circa 1965, Sontag gave a talk there which seemed mostly a list of
names of contemporary authors, composers, and painters who somehow
had earned her approval. In the questions period afterward, I
specifically asked why she had singled out Boulez and not Stockhausen
(she turned out to be right on that one), and why Borges and not
Nabokov. Her reply was basically along the lines of "Nabokov? No,
Borges." So she wasn't too impressed back then.
Chaz
Charles Nicol
Professor of English and Humanities
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
U.S.A.
(812) 237-3152
FAX (812) 237-3156
chaz@indstate.edu
"For me a work of fiction only exists insofar as it affords me
what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss..."
--Vladimir Nabokov