Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0008245, Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:29:00 -0700

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EDNOTE. My thanks to American composer Christopher Berg, lomg resident in
Paris, for this item. Itr sounds like a good lower price solution to the
_Poems & Problems_ problem.

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From: "Christopher Berg" <tentender@peoplepc.com>
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> To repeat myself (and I'm not sure why I am bothering for Mr or Ms Gill
who
> has asked such a silly question and given his own so ridiculous answer --
> and long live ad hominem attacks), Poemes et Problemes is available in a
> French Gallimard edition which collects the complete poems from "Poems and
> Problems" in Russian and English as well as a French translation -- or, as
> the French like to think, "version." (There are a couple [at least] funny
> mistranslations.) The only drawback is that the chess problems are
presented
> in French only. About $20, and if you can't get it at Amazon.com there's
> always amazon.fr.
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> Christopher Berg
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