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From: "Phillip Iannarelli" <iann88us@yahoo.com>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: VN's translation of EO
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> Manfred,
> Also. ..if it makes you feel any better, I once
> submitted a hoax to the N list and Johnson posted it.
> It had to do with non-existent photographs by Edmund
> Wilson of Nabokov doing all the things he said he
> didn't: "I don't garden, I don't cook, I don't drive,
> and I don't type." One "photograph" showed Nabokov
> driving a red sports car convertible, top down, with
> the vanity plates LOLITA. I submitted them as if they
> appeared in an art auction catalogue. The notorious
> Wilson-Nabokov Photographs. This was Wilson's way
> ofgetting back at Nabokov after their big fight.
>
> Are you critical of Nabokov? I am. If it wasn't for
> Lolita, he would have remained a minor academic author
> with an eccentric interest in butterflies. Certainly
> the books after Lolita never did anything for him.
>
> Phil Iannarelli
> --- "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mvoscol@aol.com
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:55 AM
> > Subject: VN's translation of EO
> >
> >
> > Although I have sworn an oath not to contribute to
> > NABOKV-L anymore ...
> >
> > From the TLS September 27, 2002, p.3
> >
> > Review by Clive James of T.J. Binyon, Pushkin: A
> > biography, HarperCollins:
> >
> > ... Binyon gives us irregular, unrhymed extracts
> > [from EO] that might as well be prose. They are
> > more approachable than Nabokov's bizarre rendition
> > of Eugene Onegin, but they are still prose.
> > Nabokov, as one great writer serving another, wanted
> > to give us an interlinear lexicon. Instead he gave
> > us a pedigree dog's breakfast, but at least there
> > was no mistaking it for anything uninspired. ...
> >
> > Manfred Voss
> >
>
>
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From: "Phillip Iannarelli" <iann88us@yahoo.com>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: VN's translation of EO
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (53
lines) ------------------
> Manfred,
> Also. ..if it makes you feel any better, I once
> submitted a hoax to the N list and Johnson posted it.
> It had to do with non-existent photographs by Edmund
> Wilson of Nabokov doing all the things he said he
> didn't: "I don't garden, I don't cook, I don't drive,
> and I don't type." One "photograph" showed Nabokov
> driving a red sports car convertible, top down, with
> the vanity plates LOLITA. I submitted them as if they
> appeared in an art auction catalogue. The notorious
> Wilson-Nabokov Photographs. This was Wilson's way
> ofgetting back at Nabokov after their big fight.
>
> Are you critical of Nabokov? I am. If it wasn't for
> Lolita, he would have remained a minor academic author
> with an eccentric interest in butterflies. Certainly
> the books after Lolita never did anything for him.
>
> Phil Iannarelli
> --- "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mvoscol@aol.com
> > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:55 AM
> > Subject: VN's translation of EO
> >
> >
> > Although I have sworn an oath not to contribute to
> > NABOKV-L anymore ...
> >
> > From the TLS September 27, 2002, p.3
> >
> > Review by Clive James of T.J. Binyon, Pushkin: A
> > biography, HarperCollins:
> >
> > ... Binyon gives us irregular, unrhymed extracts
> > [from EO] that might as well be prose. They are
> > more approachable than Nabokov's bizarre rendition
> > of Eugene Onegin, but they are still prose.
> > Nabokov, as one great writer serving another, wanted
> > to give us an interlinear lexicon. Instead he gave
> > us a pedigree dog's breakfast, but at least there
> > was no mistaking it for anything uninspired. ...
> >
> > Manfred Voss
> >
>
>
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