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V.Nabokov's autobiography as a "stereo-text" (an interesting but
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Vladimir Nabokov's autobiography can be read as a stereo-text in two
languages (English and Russian) and in three consecutive versions:
Conclusive Evidence (1951) - Drugie berega (1954) - Speak,Memory (1964).
Nabokov himself emphasized that these versions are far from being a mere
translation, rather they relate to one another as a metamorphosis:
This re-Englishing of a Russian re-vision of what had been na English
retelling of Russian memories in the first place, proved to be a diabolical
task, but some consolation was given to me by the thought that such multiple
metamorphosis, familiar to butterflies, had not been tried by any human
before. (Nabokov 1964: 12-13)
Here, at the crossroads of languages, a new work of stereo-poetry or
stereo-prose is born which may be characterizied in Bakhtin's words: '[I]n
the process of literary creation, languages interanimate each other and
objectify precisely that side of one's own (ando f other's) language that
pertain to its world view, its inner form, the axiologically accentuaded
system inherent in it' (Bakhtin 1981:62).
Translation as the search for equuivalence among languages has dominated the
epoch of national culturas and monolinguistic communities that needed
simples bridges of understading rathern than rainbows of co-creativity...
Critical Theory in Russia and the West, Alastair Renfrew, Galin Tihanov Ed.
BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies, 2010.
ISBN-13: 978-0415673358
ISBN-10: 0415673356
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languages (English and Russian) and in three consecutive versions:
Conclusive Evidence (1951) - Drugie berega (1954) - Speak,Memory (1964).
Nabokov himself emphasized that these versions are far from being a mere
translation, rather they relate to one another as a metamorphosis:
This re-Englishing of a Russian re-vision of what had been na English
retelling of Russian memories in the first place, proved to be a diabolical
task, but some consolation was given to me by the thought that such multiple
metamorphosis, familiar to butterflies, had not been tried by any human
before. (Nabokov 1964: 12-13)
Here, at the crossroads of languages, a new work of stereo-poetry or
stereo-prose is born which may be characterizied in Bakhtin's words: '[I]n
the process of literary creation, languages interanimate each other and
objectify precisely that side of one's own (ando f other's) language that
pertain to its world view, its inner form, the axiologically accentuaded
system inherent in it' (Bakhtin 1981:62).
Translation as the search for equuivalence among languages has dominated the
epoch of national culturas and monolinguistic communities that needed
simples bridges of understading rathern than rainbows of co-creativity...
Critical Theory in Russia and the West, Alastair Renfrew, Galin Tihanov Ed.
BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies, 2010.
ISBN-13: 978-0415673358
ISBN-10: 0415673356
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
AdaOnline: "http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/
The Nabokov Society of Japan's Annotations to Ada: http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html
The VN Bibliography Blog: http://vnbiblio.com/
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