Vladimir Nabokov

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NZZ Tagesausgabe - LITERATUR UND KUNST: VN Russian poem (fwd)
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From: Susanne Eisner <susanne.eisner@datacomm.ch>



http://archiv.nzz.ch/books/nzzheute/0/$6FPOZ$T.html

Published in today's issue of the "Neue Zuercher Zeitung": the German
translation of a short Russian poem by VN written in 1965 at St. Moritz, the
fancy Swiss resort in the Grison mountains. (Translation Christoph Ferber).

A rough English translation might read as follows:

"Facing the pine-tree woods in this country below the mountains' ermine the
dragging shame of my life might be easier to bear; my life might be more
monotonous albeit more honourable; however I would be a mere hotel dweller with
no lot in eternity."

Susanne Eisner-Kartagener, CH-3065 Bolligen, Switzerland