Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0010789, Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:22:21 -0800

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Holiday reading: Arthur Phillips. THE Egyptologist
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EDNOTE. If you are a PALE FIRE fan, you will probably enjoy _The Egyptologist_.
Its major narrator, Ralph Trilipush, is very much in the hyper-arch Kinbote
tradition. Phillips "greatfully acknowledges the kind assistance of" a good
many people with the last being "the invaluable example of Miss Vivian
Darkbloom." Phillips is not only very clever but writes well in many voices.