Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011371, Sat, 23 Apr 2005 06:43:09 -0700

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Fw: Announcing the birth of the Internet site for the Kyoto
Annotations to ADA
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EDNOTE. The very active Japanese Nabokov Society celebrates Nabokov's birthday
with the unveling of a new web site devoted to commentary on ADA. The Kyoto
Reading Circle has previously been publishing its notes in the Society
publication KRUG. With the current issue, the group reading has now gotten past
the chapter annotations so far published on ZEMBLA and in THE NABOKOVIAN and is
pushing into new territory. NABOKV-L congratulates the JNS on its new site and
looks forward to its contributions to ADAology.
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Subject: Announcing the birth of the Internet site for the Kyoto Annotations
to ADA



>
>
> Dear members of the List:
>
> On this day, the 106th birthday of Vladimir Nabokov, it is a great
> pleasure to announce the opening of the Internet site for the
> Annotations to Ada made by the Kyoto Reading Circle in Japan. The
> URL, linked with the new homepage of Nabokov Society of Japan, is as
> follows:
>
> http://vnjapan.s141.xrea.com/main/ada/index.html
>
> The Annotations at present cover Part I, Chapters 1 to 24. Chapter 24 is
> the first
> chapter to be covered by the Circle without the aid of Brian Boyd's
> "Annotations to Ada" in The Nabokovian. It was very timely that at this
> moment of change, the Japan Nabokov Society became ready to open
> its homepage. Brian has told us that it was comforting to annotate after
> our endeavors. Conversely, it certainly wasn't easy for us to annotate
> Chapter 24.
> When Brian's Chapter 24 annotations come out in the next Nabokovian., it
> would be interesting to compare the two Annotations.
>
> The Kyoto Annotations page also presents the transcripts of the Ada Forum,
> which followed the completion of each of the Annotations with an e-group
> discussion by the Circle members and Brian Boyd. Many valuable new
> findings have been made by this exchange. Both the Annotations and the
> Forum transcripts have so far been published in Krug, the semi-annual
> newsletter of the
> Japan Nabokov Society. So we are launching the annotations from a safe
> port
> to the wide ocean with our announcement in the hope that our findings
> will be shared by Nabokov scholars and readers worldwide.
>
> Brian has kindly offered to ask Jeff Edmunds to put a link to the
> appropriate pages
> in ADAonline so that those who wish to check beyond Brian Boyd's
> annotations can
> check with the Forum findings. I hope this will be done eventually.
>
> I hope these annotations and Forum exchanges will be used to fire off
> meaningful discussions in NABOKV-L.
>
> Shoko Miura
> (Editor, Ada Forum)
>
>

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