Vladimir Nabokov

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NABOKOV in JAPAN: VN Bibliography (fwd)
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From: Akiko Nakata <akikonakata@email.msn.com>
From: Akiko Nakata <akikonakata@email.msn.com>

Nabokov Special Issue of _The Rising Generation_ (November 1999) includes an
interview in English and six articles in Japanese on VN. The periodical is
the oldest and authoritative of English Studies in Japan, starting in
1899.

Hidehiro Nakao, "Nabokov as the Writers' Writer: An Interview with Brian
Boyd." (2-7)
Yoshiyuki Fujikawa, "What Kind of a Writer Nabokov Was?" (8-10)
Yuichi Isahaya, "Nabokov and Gogol: Something in the Darkness." (11-13)
Tadashi Wakashima, "Nabokov's Multi-level Thinking: A Reading of 'Spring in
Fialta'." (14-16)
Idumi Matoba, "Representation of the United States as Noises: _Lolita_ and
_Pnin_." (17-19)
Akiko Nakata, "Concealed Death: _Transparent Things_ and Other Works."
(20-22)
Keiko Nishiyama, "From Memory to Creation: Beyond Nostalgia." (23-25)
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The first issue of the newsletter of the Nabokov Society of Japan, KRUG,
has appeared. The NSJ thanks the IVNS and ZEMBLA for their warm greetings.
We are preparing the website of NSJ, which is to present the English/Russian
version of _Krug_.

_Krug_ vol. I no. 1 September 1999.

Table of Contents

Presidential Address................................Yoshiyuki Fujikawa (1)
Greetings from Abroad...............................
.....................The Internal Vladimir Nabokov Society/ZEMBLA (2)

Reports of the Foundation Meeting of the Nabokov Society of Japan

Symposium..........................................
...........Yuichi Isahaya, Akiko Nakata, Kumi Mori (4)

Video........................................................
....................Kumi Mori (7)

Book Reviews

Maxim D. Shrayer, _The World of Nabokov's Short Stories_.......
...................................Yuichi Isahaya (8)

_Conclusive Evidence_, Chapter 16.........................Akiko Nakata (10)

An Interview with Brian Boyd....................Hidehiro Nakao (14)

Invitation to the Kyoto Reading Circle.................Keiko Nishiyama (16)

Notice Board (17)

(The Greetings from Abroad and the Boyd Interview are in English. The
interview is following that which was published in _The Rising
Generation_.)