Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0016067, Sun, 9 Mar 2008 17:58:14 -0700

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VN Sighting: Spencer review in the NY Times
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Much is made early on of Avery's "four fathers." ("Each time my mother
remarried she took her new husband's name.") Spencer even includes a helping
of an essay Avery wrote for Esquire magazine about his patrilineal
predicament, and it somehow contains the phrase "Which brings me to my
mother." *Elsewhere a graduate student in Russian literature corrects
Avery's pronunciation of Nabokov. "Na-bow-kuff," she says. Actually, it is
na-BAWK-ov, if the mnemonic the master himself wrote for his Cornell
students is any indication.* What is worse, Avery updates the favored
Christian rhetorical question of "What would Jesus do?" to "What would
Dostoyevsky<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/fyodor_dostoyevsky/index.html?inline=nyt-per>do?"
Probably write a better book than this.

The rest at

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/books/review/Bissell-t.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin

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