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Query: NY Herald Tribune, Brian Boyd
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I'm still working on tracking down where Nabokov may have
encountered Edsel Ford's poem(s). In his Library of America
chronology, Brian Boyd notes that in 1962, VN "[r]egularly
reads New York Herald Tribune and American magazines and
literary journals." This raises two questions in my mind:
1. How different were the European and American editions of
the NYHT? Would the same poems have appeared in both? Was the
NYHT available in Italy as well as in Switzerland?
2. Did VN buy the American magazines and literary journals in
Europe or were they sent to him by someone in the U.S.?
Thanks in advance for any insight on these matters.
Best,
Matthew Roth
[EDNOTE. This is only a partial answer, but when asked in an interview
to describe his days in Montreux, VN mentions "stroll[ing] to a newstand
for the English papers" before dinner each evening (SO 29). -- SES]
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encountered Edsel Ford's poem(s). In his Library of America
chronology, Brian Boyd notes that in 1962, VN "[r]egularly
reads New York Herald Tribune and American magazines and
literary journals." This raises two questions in my mind:
1. How different were the European and American editions of
the NYHT? Would the same poems have appeared in both? Was the
NYHT available in Italy as well as in Switzerland?
2. Did VN buy the American magazines and literary journals in
Europe or were they sent to him by someone in the U.S.?
Thanks in advance for any insight on these matters.
Best,
Matthew Roth
[EDNOTE. This is only a partial answer, but when asked in an interview
to describe his days in Montreux, VN mentions "stroll[ing] to a newstand
for the English papers" before dinner each evening (SO 29). -- SES]
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