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SLAVITT/HARINGTON VN DIALOGUE (fwd)
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ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Novelists Donald Harington and David R. Slavitt, both long-time
subscribers to NABOKV-L, have agreed to engage in a public dialogue about
Nabokov and his relationship to their own work. The exchange will begin
later this month. Both writers have published a wide range of fiction and
non-fiction and I shall be sending out their respective CVs. More
personal statements may be found for Slavitt in CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS:
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SERIES, v. 3 (Gale), and for Harington in the DICTIONARY
OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, #152, pp. 82-91.
Although the dialogue of the two writers will be be wide-ranging
and leisurely, its focus on Nabokov in relation to their own writing means
that some firsthand acquaintance with their work would be useful in
following the discussion. After consultation with the authors, I suggest
the following two works: Harington's 1993 EKATERINA (Harcourt, Brace) and
Slavitt's 1983 ALICE AT 80 (Doubleday). These novels, both first-rate, are
instructive examples of the very different ways in which Nabokov has left
his trace in the work of younger generation of American writers.
Novelists Donald Harington and David R. Slavitt, both long-time
subscribers to NABOKV-L, have agreed to engage in a public dialogue about
Nabokov and his relationship to their own work. The exchange will begin
later this month. Both writers have published a wide range of fiction and
non-fiction and I shall be sending out their respective CVs. More
personal statements may be found for Slavitt in CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS:
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SERIES, v. 3 (Gale), and for Harington in the DICTIONARY
OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, #152, pp. 82-91.
Although the dialogue of the two writers will be be wide-ranging
and leisurely, its focus on Nabokov in relation to their own writing means
that some firsthand acquaintance with their work would be useful in
following the discussion. After consultation with the authors, I suggest
the following two works: Harington's 1993 EKATERINA (Harcourt, Brace) and
Slavitt's 1983 ALICE AT 80 (Doubleday). These novels, both first-rate, are
instructive examples of the very different ways in which Nabokov has left
his trace in the work of younger generation of American writers.