Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0013768, Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:57:06 -0700

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Re: A question about foreword to PF
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Dear Sergey,
I'm not sure what you mean by "keys" but "the loud amusement park is
explained in the quoted passage below. As for the "Fair Copy" business, do you
have the poem manuscript or the Commentary in mind? If the poem --- all
the poem
is "Fair Copy" except for the final stanzas since S. did not live long
enough to
correct them.

Best, Don Johnson


















Quoting NABOKV-L <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU>:

> Dear List,
>
> I already asked this question, but in the end of another posting and in
> less detail.
>
> Several phrases in the Kinbote's Foreword seem to indicate that
> a)it existed on paper b) it is not a "Fair Copy":
>
> "... I alone am responsible for any mistakes in my commentary. INSERT
> BEFORE A PROFESSIONAL. A professional proofreader has carefully
> rechecked..." (p.17 of Penguin Classics edition, 2000)
>
> "... There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present
> lodgings." (p.11, ibid.)
>
> " ... not like the shaky little affair on which my typewriter is
> precariously enthroned now, in this wretched motor lodge, with that
> carrousel inside and outside my head, miles away from New Wye." (p.25)
>
> What, do you think, we should make of these "keys"?
>
> Best,
>
> Sergei Soloviev
>
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