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In response to Jansy's posting, let me add that I have very rashly
agreed to speak on Nabokov and Machado at the Brazilian Academy of
Letters, of which Machado was the first president, on September 18. As
far as I know, Nabokov never read or even knew of Machado, as I told a
Brazilian writer who asked, but it was my additional comment that I was
sure Nabokov would have loved Machado that landed me this invitation.
It will be strange speaking to an audience who will all know one half
of the subject much better than I ever will.
Since I have satisfied the Nabokov-references-only criterion of the
List, I can now add that last month I published On the Origin of
Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press). I cite Nabokov for the book's epigraph, but do not
refer to him again. My examples, after explaining art and storytelling
as a human adaptation, are two classics near the phylogenic and
ontogenic origins of stories, Homer's Odyssey and Nabokov's
acquaintance Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who! For the curious, here's
Harvard's web page for reviews of the book:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BOYORI.html?show=reviews
I have not written much on Nabokov from an evolutionary angle, but here
is one, using Lolita as an example:
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-art-of-literature-and-the-science-of-literature/
Brian Boyd
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