Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0007801, Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:48:00 -0700

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Fw: Why VN was down on Quixote
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From: "Walter Miale" <wmiale@acbm.qc.ca>
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> From Walter Miale
> Subject re: Why VN was down on Quixote
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> >>....As
> >> Brian Boyd has pointed out, VN wrote the novel PNIN as a polemic reply
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> >> DON QUIXOTE.
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> Might it not have been as a polemic reply to Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev's
> biography of N.G. Chernyshevsky?
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> Walter Miale
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