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Re: Query: "Remembrance, like Rembrandt. . . " (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. Sergey B. Il'in <isb@glas.apc.org>
is teh Russian translator of many of VN's English works
into Russian -- including ADA.
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At 11:52 07.12.98 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear Nabokovians:
>
>Hello, I am a Japanese researcher of music and literature in Tokyo.
>I am subscribed to the list temporally to ask you a question.
>Could anyone identify the source of the following sentence
>by Vladimir Nabokov?:
>
>>"Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark and festive"
>
>I hear it might be from "Autobiography".
>I have checked the Japanese translation of *Speak Memory*,
>but I could not find it out. I also hear there are various
>autobiographical writings by Nabokov, which I don't find around here.
>
>If anyone can identify the quotation, do let me know the source
>either on or off the list.
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Regards,
>
>Junichi, Tokyo
>walkingtune@bigfoot.com
>
>P.S. I came across this sentence in a radio documentary
>on Richard Strauss produced by Glenn Gould.
>The quotation is refered in the book of his letters,
>which I am translating into Japanese.
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Sergei Il'yin answers:
"Ada" I.17
Sergey Il'yn
Nashe delo veseloe
is teh Russian translator of many of VN's English works
into Russian -- including ADA.
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Message requiring your approval (35 lines) ------------------
At 11:52 07.12.98 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear Nabokovians:
>
>Hello, I am a Japanese researcher of music and literature in Tokyo.
>I am subscribed to the list temporally to ask you a question.
>Could anyone identify the source of the following sentence
>by Vladimir Nabokov?:
>
>>"Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark and festive"
>
>I hear it might be from "Autobiography".
>I have checked the Japanese translation of *Speak Memory*,
>but I could not find it out. I also hear there are various
>autobiographical writings by Nabokov, which I don't find around here.
>
>If anyone can identify the quotation, do let me know the source
>either on or off the list.
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Regards,
>
>Junichi, Tokyo
>walkingtune@bigfoot.com
>
>P.S. I came across this sentence in a radio documentary
>on Richard Strauss produced by Glenn Gould.
>The quotation is refered in the book of his letters,
>which I am translating into Japanese.
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Sergei Il'yin answers:
"Ada" I.17
Sergey Il'yn
Nashe delo veseloe