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VN Reference in the NYTBR review of Max Philips's THEARTIST'S WIFE
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In a review of Max Philips's THE ARTIST'S WIFE, the reviewer, Sarah
Boxer,
finds that the female protagonist's "fictional memoir, told from the
other
side of the grave, is, like Nabokov's SPEAK, MEMORY, a kind of sad and
insolent poetry...." Given that the protagonist is characterized as
"selfish, restless, witty and mean," the linkage was probably not meant
as
a total compliment to Nabokov. I am also quite struck by how both "sad"
and "insolent" are totally off key when used to describe SPEAK, MEMORY.
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Galya Diment, Professor
Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Washington, Box 353580
Seattle, WA 98195-3580
Phone: 206-543-7344/206-543-6848
Fax: 206-543-6009/206-522-1959
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In a review of Max Philips's THE ARTIST'S WIFE, the reviewer, Sarah
Boxer,
finds that the female protagonist's "fictional memoir, told from the
other
side of the grave, is, like Nabokov's SPEAK, MEMORY, a kind of sad and
insolent poetry...." Given that the protagonist is characterized as
"selfish, restless, witty and mean," the linkage was probably not meant
as
a total compliment to Nabokov. I am also quite struck by how both "sad"
and "insolent" are totally off key when used to describe SPEAK, MEMORY.
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Galya Diment, Professor
Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Washington, Box 353580
Seattle, WA 98195-3580
Phone: 206-543-7344/206-543-6848
Fax: 206-543-6009/206-522-1959
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