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Re: [SIGHTING] A "Russian Kipling" in Nabokov's eyes...
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While reading about how Empress Josephine's jewelry was inherited by one
queen in Sweden and a Danish queen, I reached some news about a chess-game
played by Napoleon and Eugene Beauhearnais (Napoleon's stepson and
Josephine's child) under the heading "Royal Chess Players."
Although this 1905 news bears no link to "Pale Fire" (at least, that I know
of, since it would be quite a stretch to relate this tidbit to Zembla's
crown jewels), the name Beauhearnais crops up in connection to a lowly
indiscreet photographer in "Ada" (and, as far as I go, that's it).
TOPICS OF THE DAY. Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12190, 10 May 1905, Page 6
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http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP19050510.2.25
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... "Napoleon was a selfish and intolerant player. Once when he was playing
with Eugene Beauhearnais, and suddenly found himself checkmated, he swept
the board and all off the table in a fit of passion, slapped his opponent
in the face, and walked out of the room..."
2014-03-17 23:09 GMT-03:00 Jansy Mello <jansy.nabokv-L@aetern.us>:
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> "The little black book" on *Books (*Cassell Illustrated), already
> mentioned in the VN-L a few years ago, has an entry that escaped me at that
> time, on p.57, related to the Russian writer Alexander Kuprin and his '
> spy-thriller' "Junior Captain Rybnikov."
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> "Nabokov called Kuprin a Russian Kipling for his stories about pathetic
> adventure-seekers. Here perhaps Shchavinsky, "the writer", is one such
> adventurer and petty-criminal and chancer Len'ka, darling of the brothel
> girls, another. Their unheroic curiosity forces the much more likeable
> captain to betray himself. Yet the real secret he takes to the grave..."
>
> (*no bibliographical references were included, but they are found in
> Wikipedia and in B.Boyd**).
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> ..............................................
> * - 2 comments to *The Duel* by Alexander Kuprin
>
> · Amateur Reader <http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/>
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> August 26, 2011 at 15:29<http://www.bibliographing.com/2011/08/24/the-duel-by-alexander-kuprin/comment-page-1/#comment-132543>
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> Based on a glimpse of your twitter feed - which is called, I believe, a
> twimpse - I was poking around in Boyd's bio of Nabokov. Calling Kuprin the
> "Russian Kipling" is a positive but belittling judgment. Good, but a writer
> of boy's books. Kuprin sent a consoling letter when Navokov's father was
> assassinated, and Nabokov and Kuprin met in Paris in the 1930s.*The Duel* sounds
> amusingly crazy, if nothing else. Full of rules that make no sense.
>
> · nicole <http://www.bibliographing.com/>
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> August 26, 2011 at 15:35<http://www.bibliographing.com/2011/08/24/the-duel-by-alexander-kuprin/comment-page-1/#comment-132544>
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> I was counting on you to have at least a twimpse so someone would answer
> my question! Without doing research of my own, of course. I think "positive
> but belittling" is sort of what I had in mind, though it seems like an
> oxymoron. On the other hand, I can see *The Duel* as a boys' book.
> Tolstoy reacted a bit differently, according to the flap: *The Duel* made
> him call Kuprin the next Chekhov. I'm not entirely sure what he meant by
> that yet. I need to read a lot more Chekhov.
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queen in Sweden and a Danish queen, I reached some news about a chess-game
played by Napoleon and Eugene Beauhearnais (Napoleon's stepson and
Josephine's child) under the heading "Royal Chess Players."
Although this 1905 news bears no link to "Pale Fire" (at least, that I know
of, since it would be quite a stretch to relate this tidbit to Zembla's
crown jewels), the name Beauhearnais crops up in connection to a lowly
indiscreet photographer in "Ada" (and, as far as I go, that's it).
TOPICS OF THE DAY. Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12190, 10 May 1905, Page 6
View computer-generated text
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP19050510.2.25
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP19050510.2.25
.............................................................
... "Napoleon was a selfish and intolerant player. Once when he was playing
with Eugene Beauhearnais, and suddenly found himself checkmated, he swept
the board and all off the table in a fit of passion, slapped his opponent
in the face, and walked out of the room..."
2014-03-17 23:09 GMT-03:00 Jansy Mello <jansy.nabokv-L@aetern.us>:
>
>
> "The little black book" on *Books (*Cassell Illustrated), already
> mentioned in the VN-L a few years ago, has an entry that escaped me at that
> time, on p.57, related to the Russian writer Alexander Kuprin and his '
> spy-thriller' "Junior Captain Rybnikov."
>
>
>
> "Nabokov called Kuprin a Russian Kipling for his stories about pathetic
> adventure-seekers. Here perhaps Shchavinsky, "the writer", is one such
> adventurer and petty-criminal and chancer Len'ka, darling of the brothel
> girls, another. Their unheroic curiosity forces the much more likeable
> captain to betray himself. Yet the real secret he takes to the grave..."
>
> (*no bibliographical references were included, but they are found in
> Wikipedia and in B.Boyd**).
>
>
>
> ..............................................
> * - 2 comments to *The Duel* by Alexander Kuprin
>
> · Amateur Reader <http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/>
>
> August 26, 2011 at 15:29<http://www.bibliographing.com/2011/08/24/the-duel-by-alexander-kuprin/comment-page-1/#comment-132543>
>
> Based on a glimpse of your twitter feed - which is called, I believe, a
> twimpse - I was poking around in Boyd's bio of Nabokov. Calling Kuprin the
> "Russian Kipling" is a positive but belittling judgment. Good, but a writer
> of boy's books. Kuprin sent a consoling letter when Navokov's father was
> assassinated, and Nabokov and Kuprin met in Paris in the 1930s.*The Duel* sounds
> amusingly crazy, if nothing else. Full of rules that make no sense.
>
> · nicole <http://www.bibliographing.com/>
>
> August 26, 2011 at 15:35<http://www.bibliographing.com/2011/08/24/the-duel-by-alexander-kuprin/comment-page-1/#comment-132544>
>
> I was counting on you to have at least a twimpse so someone would answer
> my question! Without doing research of my own, of course. I think "positive
> but belittling" is sort of what I had in mind, though it seems like an
> oxymoron. On the other hand, I can see *The Duel* as a boys' book.
> Tolstoy reacted a bit differently, according to the flap: *The Duel* made
> him call Kuprin the next Chekhov. I'm not entirely sure what he meant by
> that yet. I need to read a lot more Chekhov.
>
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