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Re: Boyd Proposal for a list of Nabokov's Reading :Machado de
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From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@zaz.com.br>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 6:48 PM
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> After getting the message about Dr.B. Boyd´s suggestion for a list of
> Nabokov´s Reading where the existence of various contributors might help
> individual suggestions that have not sufficient data to corroborate an
> initial idea, I feel free to inquire about the possibility of Nabokov
having
> read a Portuguese language Brazilian writer´s book, namely, Machado de
> Assis´ " Posthumous Memories of Bras Cubas". The plot for VN´s book "
The
> Eye" bears striking similarities with Machado de Assis´arguments, and he
is
> one of our ninteenth-century authors that has been widely translated into
> English. I remember finding several dispersed references to Portuguese in
> various books of VN´s, " The Eye" being one of them. Jansy Mello
>
From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@zaz.com.br>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 6:48 PM
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (78
lines) ------------------
> After getting the message about Dr.B. Boyd´s suggestion for a list of
> Nabokov´s Reading where the existence of various contributors might help
> individual suggestions that have not sufficient data to corroborate an
> initial idea, I feel free to inquire about the possibility of Nabokov
having
> read a Portuguese language Brazilian writer´s book, namely, Machado de
> Assis´ " Posthumous Memories of Bras Cubas". The plot for VN´s book "
The
> Eye" bears striking similarities with Machado de Assis´arguments, and he
is
> one of our ninteenth-century authors that has been widely translated into
> English. I remember finding several dispersed references to Portuguese in
> various books of VN´s, " The Eye" being one of them. Jansy Mello
>