Stan K-Bootle: "I was near to asking the (London) Times why they had covered so many trivial deaths post-dating Dmitri’s Feb 22 departure ... Then today, March 9, his obituary has at last appeared...The Times do run supplementary Lives Remembered columns submitted by readers. I hope some such appear from VN-listers who knew Dmitri well."

 

Barbara Wyllie "There were also quite a few factual inaccuracies, e.g. that VN arrived in Berlin in 1922 with his wife, Vera. It seemed to be written in the usual spirit that Nabokov is treated with in this country, of casual dismissal, and in a faintly derogatory tone. It's a great pity, and ironically always undermines the attention to detail and faithfulness to accuracy that VN and Dmitri both championed." 

 

JM: I read, perhaps in an unreliable blog, that Dmitri had written his autobiography and decided to leave it unpublished. Was it burned, like some of Shade's note-cards, did it ever exist or...what? Carnival days in Brazil forces everyone to be aware of Mardi Gras and Ash-Wednesday. This year Ash-Wednesday was on Feb. 22 and I'm unsure if I know why it's a bit disturbing for me. .