Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0009489, Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:33:17 -0800

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Fw: Lolita's English and Russian versions
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EDNOTE. See my suggestions at bottom

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From: "Lydia Ilyakhina" <lydiabura@mtu-net.ru>
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> Dear list members,
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> I'm working on university's essay "Differences in Russian and English
versions of Lolita". I compare both books, sentence by sentence. Of course
I've got a great support of several well known studies of the same subject
(such as C. R. Proffer "Keys to Lolita"). But I dare to hope that you might
> suggest some other works that will help me. I'd be very grateful.
>
> Lydia Ilyakhina
> (lydiabura@mtu-net.ru)
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Dear Ms. Ilyakina,
Two items come to mind:
Jane Grayson's class study NABOKOV TRANSLATED: a cOMPARISON OF nABOKOV'S
rUSSIAN AND eNGLISH pROSE (1977) & AN ENGLISH-RUSSIAN DICTIONARY OF
NABOKOV'S LOLITA, Compiled by A. Nakhimovsky & S/ Paperno (1982). Aleksandr
Dolinin also has some excellent observation in his essay "From THE GIFT to
LOLITA".