-> 13 matches.Item # Date Time Recs Subject ------ ---- ---- ---- ------- 000179 94/01/13 13:37 26 Re: Recommended reading (fwd) 000183 94/01/13 16:31 28 Re: Recommended reading (fwd) 001135 96/05/30 10:41 20 Millhauser's _Mullhouse_ (fwd) 001138 96/05/31 07:40 38 Re: Millhauser's _Mullhouse_ (fwd) 001140 96/05/31 07:57 38 Re: Millhauser's _Mullhouse_ (fwd) 004461 99/10/08 10:14 41 Edmund Morris & Edwin Mullhouse: recommended reading 004511 99/10/18 20:53 32 Edmund Morris & Edwin Mullhouse: recommended reading (fwd) 004512 99/10/19 10:01 42 Re: Millhauser (fwd) 004513 99/10/20 11:52 82 VN and science 004924 00/03/21 20:24 30 Fw: Fw: Nabokov's disciples 005719 01/02/19 10:10 19 Nabokov's admirers: S. Millhauser 005721 01/02/19 11:08 60 [Fwd: Re: Nabokov's admirers: S. Millhauser] 005723 01/02/19 13:02 75 Nabokov's admirers: S. Millhauser
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>>> Item #179 (13 Jan 1994 13:37) - Re: Recommended reading (fwd)
And another: Steve Millhauser's LITTLE KINGDOMS. Millhauser has a ^^^^^^^^^^ strong, albeit quiet reputation. He's quite, in the sense of
>>> Item #183 (13 Jan 1994 16:31) - Re: Recommended reading (fwd)
I certainly endorse the recommendation of Steven Millhauser. Little ^^^^^^^^^^ Kingdoms is the only book of his I haven't read, but all the others are
>>> Item #1135 (30 May 1996 10:41) - Millhauser's _Mullhouse_ (fwd) From: Donald Barton Johnson <chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu> Subject: Millhauser's _Mullhouse_ (fwd) ^^^^^^^^^^
*************** Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954" by Steven Millhauser, first published in 1973. The review is written by Jim Lewis ^^^^^^^^^^ and appeared in the Voice Literary Supplement, May 1996. *************** written with at least a sidelong glance at Nabokov's 'Pale Fire'; it's a parody of a parody. But of the two, Millhauser's is easily the better book--subtler, ^^^^^^^^^^ creepier, more clever and perverse, funnier, and line for line more beautifully
>>> Item #1138 (31 May 1996 07:40) - Re: Millhauser's _Mullhouse_ (fwd) From: Donald Barton Johnson <chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu> Subject: Re: Millhauser's _Mullhouse_ (fwd) ^^^^^^^^^^
*************** To: Multiple recipients of list NABOKV-L Subject: Millhauser's _Mullhouse_ (fwd) ^^^^^^^^^^
*************** Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954" by Steven Millhauser, first published in 1973. The review is written by Jim Lewis ^^^^^^^^^^ and appeared in the Voice Literary Supplement, May 1996. *************** parody of a parody. But of the two, Millhauser's is easily the better ^^^^^^^^^^ book--subtler,
>>> Item #1140 (31 May 1996 07:57) - Re: Millhauser's _Mullhouse_ (fwd) From: Donald Barton Johnson <chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu> Subject: Re: Millhauser's _Mullhouse_ (fwd) ^^^^^^^^^^
EDITOR'S NOTE. Millhauser's _Mullhouse_ is indeed a fine novel that would, ^^^^^^^^^^ I think, appeal to many Nabokovians. *************** > > written with at least a sidelong glance at Nabokov's 'Pale Fire'; > > it's a parody of a parody. But of the two, Millhauser's is easily ^^^^^^^^^^ > > the better book--subtler, creepier, more clever and perverse, funnier, *************** > novel, one of my very favorites. I lose patience with much of the rest > of Millhauser's work, but he was spot on in this little gem. ^^^^^^^^^^ > --
>>> Item #4461 (8 Oct 1999 10:14) - Edmund Morris & Edwin Mullhouse: recommended reading Even more apposite to the Edmund Morris flap -- and a book Nabokovians would probably enjoy much more -- is Steven Millhauser's novel _Edwin ^^^^^^^^^^ Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954_. It takes *************** have caused the boy's death (by gunshot). Critics were quick to point out the affinities with Pale Fire, although Millhauser, in a rare ^^^^^^^^^^ interview, explicitly denied that Nabokov was his main inspiration for *************** post-Nabokovian (well, published in '72) American novels, much better than the novel for which Millhauser recently won the Pulitzer prize ^^^^^^^^^^ (_Martin Dressler_), and I recommend it to anyone who is looking for *************** The eerie similarity of the names Edmund Morris & Edwin Mullhouse brings to mind what is probably Millhauser's most perfect work, "Catalogue of ^^^^^^^^^^ the Exhibition: The Art of Edmund Moorash," in which a rather
>>> Item #4511 (18 Oct 1999 20:53) - Edmund Morris & Edwin Mullhouse: recommended reading (fwd) >The eerie similarity of the names Edmund Morris & Edwin Mullhouse brings to >mind what is probably Millhauser's most perfect work, "Catalogue of ^^^^^^^^^^ >the Exhibition: The Art of Edmund Moorash," in which a rather
>>> Item #4512 (19 Oct 1999 10:01) - Re: Millhauser (fwd) From: Donald Barton Johnson <chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu> Subject: Re: Millhauser (fwd) ^^^^^^^^^^ MIME-Version: 1.0 *************** written with at least a sidelong glance at Nabokov's 'Pale Fire'; it's a parody of a parody. But of the two, Millhauser's is easily the better ^^^^^^^^^^ book--subtler, creepier, more clever and perverse, funnier, and line for ***************
It seemed to me that in the later fictions, Millhauser was more ^^^^^^^^^^ interested in the creations than in the characters, and that was the *************** remain part of the story--a more human angle that becomes attenuated in Millhauser's later fiction. ^^^^^^^^^^
>>> Item #4513 (20 Oct 1999 11:52) - VN and science to > >mind what is probably Millhauser's most perfect work, "Catalogue of ^^^^^^^^^^ > >the Exhibition: The Art of Edmund Moorash," in which a rather
>>> Item #4924 (21 Mar 2000 20:24) - Fw: Fw: Nabokov's disciples lines) ------------------ >I would nominate Stephen Millhauser to the disciples list -- his use of ^^^^^^^^^^ >language is manages to be both original and pleasingly reminiscent, and the
>>> Item #5719 (19 Feb 2001 10:10) - Nabokov's admirers: S. Millhauser Organization: International Nabokov Society Subject: Nabokov's admirers: S. Millhauser ^^^^^^^^^^ MIME-Version: 1.0 *************** ------------------- How about Steven Millhauser? ^^^^^^^^^^ I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned him, since it was this list that
>>> Item #5721 (19 Feb 2001 11:08) - [Fwd: Re: Nabokov's admirers: S. Millhauser] Organization: International Nabokov Society Subject: [Fwd: Re: Nabokov's admirers: S. Millhauser] ^^^^^^^^^^ MIME-Version: 1.0 *************** meaningful discussion. As a trival example I offer the thought that Millhauser's _EDWIN MULHOUSE_ was (I think) his first novel and ^^^^^^^^^^ obviously owed much to VN. It is my impression Millhauser's suceeding ^^^^^^^^^^ novels (while fine books) owe successively less to VN. Perhaps this is *************** the biographer's obessions/ voyeurism/ light ) Millhauser gives ^^^^^^^^^^ interesting
>>> Item #5723 (19 Feb 2001 13:02) - Nabokov's admirers: S. Millhauser Organization: International Nabokov Society Subject: Nabokov's admirers: S. Millhauser ^^^^^^^^^^ MIME-Version: 1.0 *************** > To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU > Subject: Nabokov's admirers: S. Millhauser ^^^^^^^^^^ > > ------------------- > How about Steven Millhauser? ^^^^^^^^^^ > I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned him, since it was this list that
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