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EDNOTE. My thanks to Glenn Kenny whose memory is better than mine.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 8:10 PM
Subject: RE: Nabokov and Bowles and Borges
>
> Actually, VN did once comment on Bowles, pretty definitively,
and-surprise,
> surprise-the comments won't make Bowles fans happy at all. In the
"Selected
> Letters," the last part of a letter to James Laughlin dated 27 April 1950
> reads "I thought 'The Sheltering Sky' an utterly ridiculous performance,
> devoid of talent. You ought to have the manuscript checked by a cultured
> Arab. Thanks all the same for sending me [the] book. I hope you don't mind
> this frank expression of my opinion."
>
> Ooof. The letter begins on page 99 of the hardcover edition.
>
> GK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 1/11/04 10:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Nabokov and Bowles and Borges
>
> EDNOTE. So far as I know no one has paired Bowles & VN not did VN
> comment on
> Bowles. VN did comment on Borges--first enthusiastically and later more
> coolly. Check the Index for STRONG OPINIONS on ZEMBLA. Or maybe WaXWING.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
> >
> > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (18
> lines) ------------------
> > I would be interested to know if Nabokov ever voiced
> > an opinion about the American writer Paul Bowles.
> > Similarly, though there is a brief mention of
> > comparisons that were made between N and Borges in
> > Boyd's The American Years, it would be interesting to
> > know what he thought of the Argentine, as the more I
> > read of N the more I think of Borges.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > =====
> > http://www.elasticpress.com/sound_of_white_ants.htm
> > http://www.tobypress.com/books/dance_geometry.htm
> >
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 8:10 PM
Subject: RE: Nabokov and Bowles and Borges
>
> Actually, VN did once comment on Bowles, pretty definitively,
and-surprise,
> surprise-the comments won't make Bowles fans happy at all. In the
"Selected
> Letters," the last part of a letter to James Laughlin dated 27 April 1950
> reads "I thought 'The Sheltering Sky' an utterly ridiculous performance,
> devoid of talent. You ought to have the manuscript checked by a cultured
> Arab. Thanks all the same for sending me [the] book. I hope you don't mind
> this frank expression of my opinion."
>
> Ooof. The letter begins on page 99 of the hardcover edition.
>
> GK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 1/11/04 10:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Nabokov and Bowles and Borges
>
> EDNOTE. So far as I know no one has paired Bowles & VN not did VN
> comment on
> Bowles. VN did comment on Borges--first enthusiastically and later more
> coolly. Check the Index for STRONG OPINIONS on ZEMBLA. Or maybe WaXWING.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
> >
> > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (18
> lines) ------------------
> > I would be interested to know if Nabokov ever voiced
> > an opinion about the American writer Paul Bowles.
> > Similarly, though there is a brief mention of
> > comparisons that were made between N and Borges in
> > Boyd's The American Years, it would be interesting to
> > know what he thought of the Argentine, as the more I
> > read of N the more I think of Borges.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > =====
> > http://www.elasticpress.com/sound_of_white_ants.htm
> > http://www.tobypress.com/books/dance_geometry.htm
> >
> > __________________________________
> > Do you Yahoo!?
> > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing.
> > http://photos.yahoo.com/