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VN Bibliography & Misc.
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1. Nabokov's DAR (THE GIFT) has been called the greatest Russian novel of
the century and, especially since the collapse of the Soviet
"experiment", has attracted an increasing amount of attention from
Russian literary scholars. By chance, I recently an across the following
item. Its author, Iu. D. Apresian, is one of the major figures in modern
Russian linguistics.
"Roman DAR v Kosmose Vladimira Nabokova" [The Gift in VN's Cosmos]
in _Izvestiia akademii nauk_, Seriia literatury i iazyka. vol. 54, no. 3
(1995), pp. 3-18. This is the first half of the article which is to be
completed in the next issue.
2. My perusal of the NYTBR (October 8, 1995) turns up two VN
references--both in the "VN as a standard of comparison" category.
a) From Steven Marcus's review of Joyce Carol Oates's _Zombie_ (p. 13):
"The creation of monsters in literature belongs to a long and
important tradtion. Frankenstein's creature to Dostoevsky's undergropund
man to Kafka's Gregor Samsa, to such less impressive characters as
Humbert Humbert and John Fowles collector.....have often conveyed
something important to us about our humanity:'
b) From Robert Eisner's review of _Millenium. A History of the
Last Thousand Years_ by Felipe Fenrandez-Armesto (p. 36):
"Perhaps I should say that Mr. Fernandez-Armesto has written "a"
world, not "the" world, since "reality," as Vladimir Nabokov insisted, is
a word that should always be restrained by quotation marks."
I am beginning to suspect that the "'reality' in quotes" item may be the
most frequent VN quote.
c) Breezing through the latest _Times Literary Supplement_, a
very thick issue, I did not run across any VN references. One suspects
that VN citations are much more prominent in American literary
publications than in British ones or, for that matter, elsewhere.
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D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
the century and, especially since the collapse of the Soviet
"experiment", has attracted an increasing amount of attention from
Russian literary scholars. By chance, I recently an across the following
item. Its author, Iu. D. Apresian, is one of the major figures in modern
Russian linguistics.
"Roman DAR v Kosmose Vladimira Nabokova" [The Gift in VN's Cosmos]
in _Izvestiia akademii nauk_, Seriia literatury i iazyka. vol. 54, no. 3
(1995), pp. 3-18. This is the first half of the article which is to be
completed in the next issue.
2. My perusal of the NYTBR (October 8, 1995) turns up two VN
references--both in the "VN as a standard of comparison" category.
a) From Steven Marcus's review of Joyce Carol Oates's _Zombie_ (p. 13):
"The creation of monsters in literature belongs to a long and
important tradtion. Frankenstein's creature to Dostoevsky's undergropund
man to Kafka's Gregor Samsa, to such less impressive characters as
Humbert Humbert and John Fowles collector.....have often conveyed
something important to us about our humanity:'
b) From Robert Eisner's review of _Millenium. A History of the
Last Thousand Years_ by Felipe Fenrandez-Armesto (p. 36):
"Perhaps I should say that Mr. Fernandez-Armesto has written "a"
world, not "the" world, since "reality," as Vladimir Nabokov insisted, is
a word that should always be restrained by quotation marks."
I am beginning to suspect that the "'reality' in quotes" item may be the
most frequent VN quote.
c) Breezing through the latest _Times Literary Supplement_, a
very thick issue, I did not run across any VN references. One suspects
that VN citations are much more prominent in American literary
publications than in British ones or, for that matter, elsewhere.
-----------------------
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618