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EDNOTE. NABOKV-L thanks Peter Hayes. This is the quote I was trying to
recall when I remarked that VN cooled to Borges after an initial enthusiam.
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> I don't have a copy of SO to hand, but from memory,
> the TIME cover-story (23 May 1969) on VN doesn't appear there.
> In it, VN says about Borges:
> "At first, Véra and I were delighted by reading him.
> We felt we were on a portico, but we have learned
> that there was no house."
>
> That's the comment in total. I have read too little of
> Borges myself (ie none) to say what VN meant by it.
>
> Peter Hayes.
>
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> >From: "Susan Elizabeth Sweeney" <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
> >To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:58 AM
> >Subject: Nabokov and Borges
> >
> >
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> >> Hello to Brian and others,
> >>
> >> I am not so sure that Nabokov's admiration of Borges waned in any way.
> >While Nabokov vociferously resisted any intimations that he had been
> >influenced by anyone, including Borges (one of those people whose names
> >"always begin with a B" to whom he was compared), his comments on
Borges's
> >"miniature labyrinths" in SO are consistently approving. The
> "good-natured
> >anagram" in ADA is, at heart, a considerable compliment, since Osberg
> >becomes the Antiterran author of LOLITA.
> >>
> >> Those interested in connections between the two might wish to read
> Borges'
> >remarks at the first Cornell Nabokov festival (published as The
> Achievements
> >of Vladimir Nabokov)--although he says little about VN and even claims to
> be
> >unfamiliar with LOLITA. Also, I highly recommend Patricia Merivale's
> >classic essay on "The Flaunting of Artifice in Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge
> >Luis Borges" (in Nabokov: The Man and His Work).
> >>
> >> Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
> >> Associate Professor of English
> >> Holy Cross College
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
recall when I remarked that VN cooled to Borges after an initial enthusiam.
----- Original Message -----
From: <nitrogen14@australia.edu>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (70
lines) ------------------
> I don't have a copy of SO to hand, but from memory,
> the TIME cover-story (23 May 1969) on VN doesn't appear there.
> In it, VN says about Borges:
> "At first, Véra and I were delighted by reading him.
> We felt we were on a portico, but we have learned
> that there was no house."
>
> That's the comment in total. I have read too little of
> Borges myself (ie none) to say what VN meant by it.
>
> Peter Hayes.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Susan Elizabeth Sweeney" <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
> >To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:58 AM
> >Subject: Nabokov and Borges
> >
> >
> >> This message was originally submitted by ssweeney@HOLYCROSS.EDU to the
> >NABOKV-L
> >> list at LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list,
> >using a
> >> mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user
> >support or
> >> consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it
> >will be
> >> distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be
> >removed
> >> automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you
> receive
> >into
> >> a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally,
you
> >should
> >> be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal
> >"reply"
> >> function of your mail program.
> >>
> >> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (10
> >lines) ------------------
> >> Hello to Brian and others,
> >>
> >> I am not so sure that Nabokov's admiration of Borges waned in any way.
> >While Nabokov vociferously resisted any intimations that he had been
> >influenced by anyone, including Borges (one of those people whose names
> >"always begin with a B" to whom he was compared), his comments on
Borges's
> >"miniature labyrinths" in SO are consistently approving. The
> "good-natured
> >anagram" in ADA is, at heart, a considerable compliment, since Osberg
> >becomes the Antiterran author of LOLITA.
> >>
> >> Those interested in connections between the two might wish to read
> Borges'
> >remarks at the first Cornell Nabokov festival (published as The
> Achievements
> >of Vladimir Nabokov)--although he says little about VN and even claims to
> be
> >unfamiliar with LOLITA. Also, I highly recommend Patricia Merivale's
> >classic essay on "The Flaunting of Artifice in Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge
> >Luis Borges" (in Nabokov: The Man and His Work).
> >>
> >> Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
> >> Associate Professor of English
> >> Holy Cross College
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>