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From: "Alphonse Vinh" <AVinh@npr.org>
To: "'Vladimir Nabokov Forum'" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: NABOKOV & Saul Bellow
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> Nabokov didn't care much for Bellow either. As I recall from "Strong
> Opinions", in response to what an interviewer's question about Nabokov's
> view of S. Bellow, VV answered, "A puff of smoke."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@GTE.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 1:35 PM
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> Subject: NABOKOV & Saul Bellow
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> Th L.A. Times Book Review (Oct. 15, 2000, pp. 2-3) has a scathing review
of
> James Atlas' _Bellow A Biography_ . British man-of-letters, Frederic
> Raphael, who dislikes Bellow's work almost as much as he dislikes Atlas'
> bio, concludes :
>
> "Atlas' anthology of received opinion is as wanting in insight as it is in
> malice. He ... never remarks the HERZOG is, to a marked degree, a remake
of
> Nabokov's PNIN (which writers express mutual antipathy, they are always
> likely to have similarities,)...
From: "Alphonse Vinh" <AVinh@npr.org>
To: "'Vladimir Nabokov Forum'" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: NABOKOV & Saul Bellow
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> Nabokov didn't care much for Bellow either. As I recall from "Strong
> Opinions", in response to what an interviewer's question about Nabokov's
> view of S. Bellow, VV answered, "A puff of smoke."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@GTE.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 1:35 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: NABOKOV & Saul Bellow
>
>
> Th L.A. Times Book Review (Oct. 15, 2000, pp. 2-3) has a scathing review
of
> James Atlas' _Bellow A Biography_ . British man-of-letters, Frederic
> Raphael, who dislikes Bellow's work almost as much as he dislikes Atlas'
> bio, concludes :
>
> "Atlas' anthology of received opinion is as wanting in insight as it is in
> malice. He ... never remarks the HERZOG is, to a marked degree, a remake
of
> Nabokov's PNIN (which writers express mutual antipathy, they are always
> likely to have similarities,)...