Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0007984, Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:59:12 -0700

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Correction: Not SASHA but Dem'yan Bednyi
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EDNOTE My thanks to Mr. Svirilin. My senescent memory led me to blend poets Sasha Chornyi and Dem'yan Bednyi. Curious.

----- Original Message -----
From: Aleksandr Svirilin
To: D. Barton Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: Fw: Fw: VN and Soviet Literary Criticism


>EDNOTE. Chaplygin's is probably a bit earlier than Vinogradov's. The latter
>was commenting on VN's Onegin's scholarship while Chaplygin directly
>addresses LOLITA. Actually, a Soviet newpaper in the Twenties heaped scorn
>on a Nabokov poem. Sasha Bednyi, was it?

Не Саша, а Демьян. Демьян Бедный.

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