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VN & Oleg Mikhailov (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. A couple of days ago, I wrote a note on a recent short
article by Oleg Mikhailov, the man who first introduced VN to Soviet readers in
several articles in the 60s and 70's when he was officially proscribed.
Maxim Shrayer provides some interesting additional information.
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From: "Maxim D. Shrayer" <shrayerm@bc.edu>
I don't know if this is of any consequence, but you might want to mention
to the NABOKV-L subscribers that I have discussed Mikhailov's Soviet-era
comments on Nabokov in several of my essays on Bunin and Nabokovand most
recently in Chapter 4 of my The World of Nabokov's Stories. Mikhailov
wrote about a page on Nabokov in vol. 1 of Literaturnoe nasledstvo (pp
49-50 of the I A Bunin 2-volume set, Moscow, Nauka, 1973); he called
Nabokov "the Peter Schlemihl of literary emigration" (after Chamisso's
novel).
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Maxim D. Shrayer
Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages
Boston College
Lyons Hall 210
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3804 USA
e-mail: shrayerm@bc.edu
tel. (617) 552-3911
fax. (617) 552-2286
http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL-V/ShrayerM.html
"The World of Nabokov's Stories" (1999):
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/shrwor.html
article by Oleg Mikhailov, the man who first introduced VN to Soviet readers in
several articles in the 60s and 70's when he was officially proscribed.
Maxim Shrayer provides some interesting additional information.
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From: "Maxim D. Shrayer" <shrayerm@bc.edu>
I don't know if this is of any consequence, but you might want to mention
to the NABOKV-L subscribers that I have discussed Mikhailov's Soviet-era
comments on Nabokov in several of my essays on Bunin and Nabokovand most
recently in Chapter 4 of my The World of Nabokov's Stories. Mikhailov
wrote about a page on Nabokov in vol. 1 of Literaturnoe nasledstvo (pp
49-50 of the I A Bunin 2-volume set, Moscow, Nauka, 1973); he called
Nabokov "the Peter Schlemihl of literary emigration" (after Chamisso's
novel).
--
Maxim D. Shrayer
Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages
Boston College
Lyons Hall 210
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3804 USA
e-mail: shrayerm@bc.edu
tel. (617) 552-3911
fax. (617) 552-2286
http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL-V/ShrayerM.html
"The World of Nabokov's Stories" (1999):
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/shrwor.html