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THE NABOKOVIAN #34 (Spring 95)
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EDITORIAL NOTE: Below is the Table of Contents for the new issue.
Membership in the International Nabokov Society includes the twice-yearly
NABOKOVIAN. Individual memberships are $11 per annum; institutions
--$14. All queries, subscriptions, etc. should be directed to: THE
NABOKOVIAN / Slavic Languages & Literatures / The University of Kansas /
Lawrence, Kansas 66045. Please ask your library to subscribe.
CONTENTS
News by Stephen Jan Parker.
Brief reports on the fire at Rozhdestveno; news on the new Lolita film
production; and on the Russo-Swedish opera premier of Lolita.
Society President John Burt Foster reports on the 11 papers delivered at
the two MLA and one AATSEEL Nabokov sessions.
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Nabokov's First American Questionnaire
(Document presented by Brian Gross with Commentary, by Gene Barabtarlo)
The ship manifest for the Champlain that brought the Nabokovs to
New York in May 1940.
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Colloquy on Browning's Door
Compiled by Stephen Blackwell
An exchange of messages on NABOKV-L that arose from VN's curious
entry "Browning's door is preserved in the library of Welesley College"
in the midst of the chronology of of his New Directions Gogol volume.
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Annotations & Queries
Edited by Gene Barabtarlo
The Oneirological Life of Ben Sirine, by A. Bouazzi
A rather amazing explication of a figure mentioned in ADA.
Re-cast in Concrete, by Eric Roman.
A series of French glosses pursuant to Suellen Stringer-Hye's
earlier note on architectural references in ADA.
Two Worlds in One Structure ("Christmas"), by V. Myl'nikov (Volgograd)
A sketch of the story's binary structure drwn from a Russian
dissertation-in-progress.
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The Latvian Nabokov: "Breitenstrater-Paolino" & "Tokalosh," by D. Barton
Johnson. A sketch of one recently discovered VN newspaper
account of a boxing match; and an account of a story (almost certainly
wrongly) attributed to VN.
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Annotations to ADA 4. Part 1, Chapter 4
by Brian Boyd
Boyd continues his series of annotations to ADA.
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Abstracts
1. Nabokov's Poetics of Dates by Pekka Tammi (Conferene paper)
2. A Robust but Pliant John Ray as LOLITA's Ironic Muse by Brian Walter
(MLA Conference paper)
3. Nabokov's THE GIFT: The Image of Reading in Artistic Creation, by
Stephen Blackwell (Dissertation at Indiana Un.)
4. Imagery in Vladimir Nabokov's Last Russian Novel (DAR). Its English
Translation (THE GIFT), and Other Prose Works of the 1930s, by Nassim Berdjis
(Dissertation at Mainz, Germany)
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Addenda to the Annual Nabokov Bibliographies 1978-1992
by Jason Merrill
A gathering of VN bibliographic items not found in the annual NABOKOVIAN
bibliographies. Mostly drawn from the MLA CD-ROM
Membership in the International Nabokov Society includes the twice-yearly
NABOKOVIAN. Individual memberships are $11 per annum; institutions
--$14. All queries, subscriptions, etc. should be directed to: THE
NABOKOVIAN / Slavic Languages & Literatures / The University of Kansas /
Lawrence, Kansas 66045. Please ask your library to subscribe.
CONTENTS
News by Stephen Jan Parker.
Brief reports on the fire at Rozhdestveno; news on the new Lolita film
production; and on the Russo-Swedish opera premier of Lolita.
Society President John Burt Foster reports on the 11 papers delivered at
the two MLA and one AATSEEL Nabokov sessions.
-----------------------------
Nabokov's First American Questionnaire
(Document presented by Brian Gross with Commentary, by Gene Barabtarlo)
The ship manifest for the Champlain that brought the Nabokovs to
New York in May 1940.
-----------------------
Colloquy on Browning's Door
Compiled by Stephen Blackwell
An exchange of messages on NABOKV-L that arose from VN's curious
entry "Browning's door is preserved in the library of Welesley College"
in the midst of the chronology of of his New Directions Gogol volume.
--------------------------
Annotations & Queries
Edited by Gene Barabtarlo
The Oneirological Life of Ben Sirine, by A. Bouazzi
A rather amazing explication of a figure mentioned in ADA.
Re-cast in Concrete, by Eric Roman.
A series of French glosses pursuant to Suellen Stringer-Hye's
earlier note on architectural references in ADA.
Two Worlds in One Structure ("Christmas"), by V. Myl'nikov (Volgograd)
A sketch of the story's binary structure drwn from a Russian
dissertation-in-progress.
------------------------
The Latvian Nabokov: "Breitenstrater-Paolino" & "Tokalosh," by D. Barton
Johnson. A sketch of one recently discovered VN newspaper
account of a boxing match; and an account of a story (almost certainly
wrongly) attributed to VN.
---------------------------
Annotations to ADA 4. Part 1, Chapter 4
by Brian Boyd
Boyd continues his series of annotations to ADA.
---------------------------------
Abstracts
1. Nabokov's Poetics of Dates by Pekka Tammi (Conferene paper)
2. A Robust but Pliant John Ray as LOLITA's Ironic Muse by Brian Walter
(MLA Conference paper)
3. Nabokov's THE GIFT: The Image of Reading in Artistic Creation, by
Stephen Blackwell (Dissertation at Indiana Un.)
4. Imagery in Vladimir Nabokov's Last Russian Novel (DAR). Its English
Translation (THE GIFT), and Other Prose Works of the 1930s, by Nassim Berdjis
(Dissertation at Mainz, Germany)
-------------------------
Addenda to the Annual Nabokov Bibliographies 1978-1992
by Jason Merrill
A gathering of VN bibliographic items not found in the annual NABOKOVIAN
bibliographies. Mostly drawn from the MLA CD-ROM