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Re: Nabokov, Fitzgerald & Anti-Semitism (fwd)
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Joshua Roberts wrote, in response to questions raised by Galya Diment's
paper:
>... I think the answer is almost disagreeably simple: THE GREAT
GATSBY,
>featuring the crassly anti-Semitic portrayal of Meyer Wolfsheim, "the man
>who fixed the World's Series back in 1919" with his "business gonnegtions,"
>could have done nothing but raise, not Nabokov's brows, but his hackles. As
>it did, and does, mine.
Joshua Roberts tract@voicenet.com http://www.voicenet.com/~tract
I agree wholeheartedly.
This thread began with a needling attack on Anthony Julius. Didn't seem to
have much to do with VN.
Sylvia
Sylvia Weiser Wendel
paper:
>... I think the answer is almost disagreeably simple: THE GREAT
GATSBY,
>featuring the crassly anti-Semitic portrayal of Meyer Wolfsheim, "the man
>who fixed the World's Series back in 1919" with his "business gonnegtions,"
>could have done nothing but raise, not Nabokov's brows, but his hackles. As
>it did, and does, mine.
Joshua Roberts tract@voicenet.com http://www.voicenet.com/~tract
I agree wholeheartedly.
This thread began with a needling attack on Anthony Julius. Didn't seem to
have much to do with VN.
Sylvia
Sylvia Weiser Wendel