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VN Bibliography: "Krasavitsa" and "Conferences"
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1. The VN short story "Krasavitsa" (A Russian Beauty) has long puzzled me.
Grigori Utgof has kindly called my attention to an article "'Krasavitsa'
Vladimira Nabokova: 'Vechno letyashchaya strela, popavshaya v tsel'" by I.
Belobrovtseva & S. Turovskaya in _Wiener Slaeistischer Almanach 38 (1996),
pp. 127-135.
2. Zinovy Zinik's "Letter from Middletown" appears in the __Times Literary
Supplement_ of 25 June 1999, pp. 17-18. It is a tongue-in-cheek survey of
several of the VN centennial conferences held in the U.S. and America --
especially Priscilla Myer's "1799, 1899, 1999" Pushkin, Nabokov and
Intertextuality" early this year at Wesleyan Univesity in
Middletown, Connecticut. Zinik is himself a gifted Russian emigre writer
with a freely acknowledged debt to VN. Charming though his essay be, he
has apparently been misinformed about the scale of the VN
birthday celebrations cum conference in Petersburg this April. It was, in
fact, most impressive -- with consequences that will extend well into the
next century.
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
Grigori Utgof has kindly called my attention to an article "'Krasavitsa'
Vladimira Nabokova: 'Vechno letyashchaya strela, popavshaya v tsel'" by I.
Belobrovtseva & S. Turovskaya in _Wiener Slaeistischer Almanach 38 (1996),
pp. 127-135.
2. Zinovy Zinik's "Letter from Middletown" appears in the __Times Literary
Supplement_ of 25 June 1999, pp. 17-18. It is a tongue-in-cheek survey of
several of the VN centennial conferences held in the U.S. and America --
especially Priscilla Myer's "1799, 1899, 1999" Pushkin, Nabokov and
Intertextuality" early this year at Wesleyan Univesity in
Middletown, Connecticut. Zinik is himself a gifted Russian emigre writer
with a freely acknowledged debt to VN. Charming though his essay be, he
has apparently been misinformed about the scale of the VN
birthday celebrations cum conference in Petersburg this April. It was, in
fact, most impressive -- with consequences that will extend well into the
next century.
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618