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Brian Boyd re "Notes to Ada" (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. Below Brian Boyd responds to my comments on (indicated by
>>) Jake Pultorak's
query about the possible availability of Boyd's "Notes to ADA" which are
running serially in THE NABOKOVIAN.
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From: Brian Boyd <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
May the ADA annotator add a note or two?
>>There is, at the
moment, no plan to gather and publish the "Notes" -- although it would
be a blessing for all of us. The major stumbling block is, I gather, that
Boyd is, as the saying goes, "overcommitted."
It is possible that the existing notes will be placed on Zembla or even
on CD-ROM, but even this would take more time than I have at the moment.
However, if ADA fans all over Terra were to whip up enough money to keep
me going for six months I think I could do it in that time! I like the
old idea of a subscription series.
My Nabokov's ADA: The Place of Consciousness, at 245 pages, has already
been overtaken in bulk by the Annotations published to date, but it does
present a consecutive argument, and ranges from details such as those
covered in the Annotations to an overview of Nabokov's metaphysics.
>>For the moment, we shall
have to live with Boyd's "minimalist" notes to the Library of America
edition -- a constraint imposed by the cost-conscious publisher. There
are also notes to the Russian translation of ADA issued by Symposium
in St. Petersburg as there will be for Dieter Zimmer's Rowohlt edition
of ADA and Maurice Couturier's Pleiade edition.
I will be doing the Pleaide notes myself; they should be at least six
times as dense as the Library of America notes, and perhaps a sixth as
dense as the Annotations. By the time the Pleiade ADA emerges, the
Annotations series will have at least reached the Burning Barn and even
the library, but we'll still be in Ardis the First.
>>On the bright side I can point out that the absence of Brian's
commentaries for the parts of ADA to the right of I-13, gives other
scholars the chance to publish first.
Please do! And thanks to those who send me corrections and suggestions
for the instalments as they come, particularly to faithful and
eagle-eyed Earl Sampson.
Brian Boyd
>>) Jake Pultorak's
query about the possible availability of Boyd's "Notes to ADA" which are
running serially in THE NABOKOVIAN.
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From: Brian Boyd <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
May the ADA annotator add a note or two?
>>There is, at the
moment, no plan to gather and publish the "Notes" -- although it would
be a blessing for all of us. The major stumbling block is, I gather, that
Boyd is, as the saying goes, "overcommitted."
It is possible that the existing notes will be placed on Zembla or even
on CD-ROM, but even this would take more time than I have at the moment.
However, if ADA fans all over Terra were to whip up enough money to keep
me going for six months I think I could do it in that time! I like the
old idea of a subscription series.
My Nabokov's ADA: The Place of Consciousness, at 245 pages, has already
been overtaken in bulk by the Annotations published to date, but it does
present a consecutive argument, and ranges from details such as those
covered in the Annotations to an overview of Nabokov's metaphysics.
>>For the moment, we shall
have to live with Boyd's "minimalist" notes to the Library of America
edition -- a constraint imposed by the cost-conscious publisher. There
are also notes to the Russian translation of ADA issued by Symposium
in St. Petersburg as there will be for Dieter Zimmer's Rowohlt edition
of ADA and Maurice Couturier's Pleiade edition.
I will be doing the Pleaide notes myself; they should be at least six
times as dense as the Library of America notes, and perhaps a sixth as
dense as the Annotations. By the time the Pleiade ADA emerges, the
Annotations series will have at least reached the Burning Barn and even
the library, but we'll still be in Ardis the First.
>>On the bright side I can point out that the absence of Brian's
commentaries for the parts of ADA to the right of I-13, gives other
scholars the chance to publish first.
Please do! And thanks to those who send me corrections and suggestions
for the instalments as they come, particularly to faithful and
eagle-eyed Earl Sampson.
Brian Boyd