Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0014358, Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:26:46 -0800

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Re: VN on translation
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From Don Johnson

This may have come up in the discussion but if not----
See VN's essay "The Servile Path" in ON TRANSLATION, ed. Reuben A. Brower.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP, 1959, pp.97-110.
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Quoting Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@EARTHLINK.NET>:

> Can anyone hazard an answer about what VN truly believed about translation?
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> Dear Charles,
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> We don't have to guess - - VN wrote some remarkable lines (probably from "An
> evening of Russian poetry") that is something like:
> a parrot's chatter,
> the poet's head upon a platter
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> I'm probably mis-remembering, leaving something out. I'm not really sure
> about the parrot - - but the John the Baptist imagery is clear in my memory.
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> Carolyn
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