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Alexey Sklyarenko: If we trust VN's words in his Wisconsin Studies
interview, Kinbote committed suicide on October 19, 1959, the day he
completed the Foreword to Pale Fire. ..Pushkin is the author of the elegy To
Ovid (1821). He mentions Naso's shade in his poem "To Baratynsky from
Bessarabia" (1822):..(To these days Naso's shade/ Is still looking for
Danubian banks).Pushkin mentions Naso in Eugene Onegin (Canto One, VIII) .
The first name of Bouteillan, the French butler in Ardis, former valet of
Demon Veen (Van's and Ada's father in Ada), is Albert.
JM: Not related, but amusing, is your recollection of Bouteillan's first
name, Albert. We were wondering about Gran D du Mont in the former posting
and Santos Dumont's first name is Alberto. However, there is nothing of the
butler in him. To practice a luxurious life in a balloon Santos Dumont
(whose family's estate demanded that its administrator cross it by train),
while in his Parisien gare, built a very high-up perch equipped with table
and chairs and had a butler carry champagne and crystal goblets with caviar
up a ladder's steep steps. Bouteillan and Bout suggest
"bouteille/bottle/butler" and I think Nabokov somewhere linked butlers to
Ganymede and his various emissaries down to common earthlings.
I tried to look through Nabokov's index in Eugene Onegin, a Novel in Verse
but the letters were too small for comfort, and this was merely my initial
obstacle. I wish I knew more about Pushkin's reference to Naso's shade. In
the entry he opened with his name (Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov) the only
works he mentions are Conclusive Evidence, Speak Memory and Gogol (this in
1964?).
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interview, Kinbote committed suicide on October 19, 1959, the day he
completed the Foreword to Pale Fire. ..Pushkin is the author of the elegy To
Ovid (1821). He mentions Naso's shade in his poem "To Baratynsky from
Bessarabia" (1822):..(To these days Naso's shade/ Is still looking for
Danubian banks).Pushkin mentions Naso in Eugene Onegin (Canto One, VIII) .
The first name of Bouteillan, the French butler in Ardis, former valet of
Demon Veen (Van's and Ada's father in Ada), is Albert.
JM: Not related, but amusing, is your recollection of Bouteillan's first
name, Albert. We were wondering about Gran D du Mont in the former posting
and Santos Dumont's first name is Alberto. However, there is nothing of the
butler in him. To practice a luxurious life in a balloon Santos Dumont
(whose family's estate demanded that its administrator cross it by train),
while in his Parisien gare, built a very high-up perch equipped with table
and chairs and had a butler carry champagne and crystal goblets with caviar
up a ladder's steep steps. Bouteillan and Bout suggest
"bouteille/bottle/butler" and I think Nabokov somewhere linked butlers to
Ganymede and his various emissaries down to common earthlings.
I tried to look through Nabokov's index in Eugene Onegin, a Novel in Verse
but the letters were too small for comfort, and this was merely my initial
obstacle. I wish I knew more about Pushkin's reference to Naso's shade. In
the entry he opened with his name (Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov) the only
works he mentions are Conclusive Evidence, Speak Memory and Gogol (this in
1964?).
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