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The French Connection: Nabokovs & Mounier
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Hello,
I have been reading up on "the New Catholic Left" of the 1930s - 1950s
in
France, out of curiousity about Emmanuel Mounier, the French personalist
philosopher / political thinker, and noticed that Nikolai Nabokov had
connections to Mounier's review _Esprit_, evidently through Jacques
Maritain.
I am still pretty much a neophyte in terms of both this period (I read
much more English history), philosophy, and Nabokov criticism (I have to
admit I read Boyd not only for pleasure but to find out all the stuff
that went over my head when I read VVN - I suppose that is cheating!).
In spite of this, I am intrigued by potential similarities or at least a
like-mindedness that I sense in both Mounier and Nabokov. So I have to
ask, is anyone aware of literature - or has anyone produced any? - that
explores VVN in a personalist context?
Many thanks!
Alexander Justice * alex@supermodern.net *
http://members.uia.net/~jahvah
Don't you wonder sometimes / 'Bout sound and vision? -- David Bowie
Hello,
I have been reading up on "the New Catholic Left" of the 1930s - 1950s
in
France, out of curiousity about Emmanuel Mounier, the French personalist
philosopher / political thinker, and noticed that Nikolai Nabokov had
connections to Mounier's review _Esprit_, evidently through Jacques
Maritain.
I am still pretty much a neophyte in terms of both this period (I read
much more English history), philosophy, and Nabokov criticism (I have to
admit I read Boyd not only for pleasure but to find out all the stuff
that went over my head when I read VVN - I suppose that is cheating!).
In spite of this, I am intrigued by potential similarities or at least a
like-mindedness that I sense in both Mounier and Nabokov. So I have to
ask, is anyone aware of literature - or has anyone produced any? - that
explores VVN in a personalist context?
Many thanks!
Alexander Justice * alex@supermodern.net *
http://members.uia.net/~jahvah
Don't you wonder sometimes / 'Bout sound and vision? -- David Bowie