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Dear List,
I am reviewing a Danish book *Ulven kommer *(Gyldendal 2016), a translation
by Henrik G. Poulsen of miscellaneous texts by Nabokov, mostly picked from
the *Lectures* and *Strong Opinions*.
What bothers me are the essays Poulsen translated from *Lectures on
Literature* and *Lectures on Russian Literature*. In a note in *Vladimir
Nabokov: The American Years*, Boyd writes: “The lectures as edited for
publication contain many puzzling omissions, misreadings, spurious
improvements and even sheer editorial inventions.” And I recall that
Vladimir E. Alexandrov, in *Nabokov’s Otherworld* (which I don't have near
at hand), found the missing two pages from the essay *The Art of Literature
and Commonsense *– the two pages turned out to be a sentence.
So I have two questions:
1. Can anyone enlighten me regarding the missing two pages?
2. If they as poorly edited as Boyd writes, how do we as scholars use the
*Lectures* in a responsible fashion?
Best Wishes, Ole Nyegaard, Aarhus, Denmark.
--
Ole Nyegaard
Henrik Hertz Vej 39
8230 Åbyhøj
e-mail: conyegaard@gmail.com
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I am reviewing a Danish book *Ulven kommer *(Gyldendal 2016), a translation
by Henrik G. Poulsen of miscellaneous texts by Nabokov, mostly picked from
the *Lectures* and *Strong Opinions*.
What bothers me are the essays Poulsen translated from *Lectures on
Literature* and *Lectures on Russian Literature*. In a note in *Vladimir
Nabokov: The American Years*, Boyd writes: “The lectures as edited for
publication contain many puzzling omissions, misreadings, spurious
improvements and even sheer editorial inventions.” And I recall that
Vladimir E. Alexandrov, in *Nabokov’s Otherworld* (which I don't have near
at hand), found the missing two pages from the essay *The Art of Literature
and Commonsense *– the two pages turned out to be a sentence.
So I have two questions:
1. Can anyone enlighten me regarding the missing two pages?
2. If they as poorly edited as Boyd writes, how do we as scholars use the
*Lectures* in a responsible fashion?
Best Wishes, Ole Nyegaard, Aarhus, Denmark.
--
Ole Nyegaard
Henrik Hertz Vej 39
8230 Åbyhøj
e-mail: conyegaard@gmail.com
Mobil: 2573 1165
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
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Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada: http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
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