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Re: Dmitri Nabokov on Natalya Tolstoi; Rilke (fwd)
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From: Mary Krimmel <mary@krimmel.net>
At 07:30 AM 1/30/03 -0800, Dieter Zimmer wrote:
"... Nabokov also greatly preferred Kafka to Thomas Mann, and to my mind it
is all but impossible to equally appreciate them both; it's either one or
the other."
No scholar, but somewhat introspective as well as Nabokophilic, now I
wonder which I appreciate - Kafka or Mann? I've only read translations, but
more than one work by each. If "equally appreciate" means anything, how do
we compare? I can't even say which I prefer.
Mary Krimmel
At 07:30 AM 1/30/03 -0800, Dieter Zimmer wrote:
"... Nabokov also greatly preferred Kafka to Thomas Mann, and to my mind it
is all but impossible to equally appreciate them both; it's either one or
the other."
No scholar, but somewhat introspective as well as Nabokophilic, now I
wonder which I appreciate - Kafka or Mann? I've only read translations, but
more than one work by each. If "equally appreciate" means anything, how do
we compare? I can't even say which I prefer.
Mary Krimmel