Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0006369, Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:12:21 -0800

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Nabokov & the German Campus Novel
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NABOKV-L thanks Nassim Balestrini for this item.

Rainer Maria Kiesow. "Ist der Ruf erst angenommen, lebt sich's völlig
unbeklommen: Der Campusroman und was statt dessen lesenswert ist: Eine
kommentierte Bibliographie zur Debatte um die deutsche Universität."
_Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung_ 12 February 2002: 53.

Kiesow (who works for the Max Planck Institute for Legal History in
Frankfurt/Main, Germany) rejects the German campus novel as not being
worthy of the appellation 'literature.' In the final section of his
nearly full-page essay, he recommends--among other foreign-language
works--VN's _Pnin_ as preferable to any of the previously discussed works.



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