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From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
EDNOTE. Nabokov readers tend to be an interesting group of people. Being
in touch with them is among the pleasures of running NABOKV-L. Some years
ago, I electronically met Rita Meklin, a young Russian emigre living in San
Francisco. Since then the writer and journalist has been twice short-listed
for the Andrey Bely prize, one of Russia's most prestigious literary awards.
The well-known Moscow publishing house "Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie" has
just published her collection of stories and essays under the title "The
Battle at Petersburg" as part of a new series devoted to fresh voices and
elegant, "difficult" prose that fall outside from "the intellectual
mainstream."
Two of the items in Rita's far- ranging volume are of particular interest
to Nabokovians:
One, "Otets, Syn, i Vsyo Ostal'noe" Father, son, & all the rest) is
devoted to meeting Dmitrii Nabokov in Berkeley,where he was giving a
masterclass on translation technique. Another, "Bony i Babochki,"
(Numismatisists & Butterflies) traces VN's relationship with a fellow
Russian emigre entomologist in Berlin, Nikolai Kardakov, and the surfacing
of a copy "King, Queen, Knave" inscribed by VN to Kardakov with an autograph
copy ohis poem "Babochki" Father's Butterflies introducing Russian readers
to it.
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The book (in Russian) is available at http://www.ozon.ru
The link to that item is:
http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/1545458/
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From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
EDNOTE. Nabokov readers tend to be an interesting group of people. Being
in touch with them is among the pleasures of running NABOKV-L. Some years
ago, I electronically met Rita Meklin, a young Russian emigre living in San
Francisco. Since then the writer and journalist has been twice short-listed
for the Andrey Bely prize, one of Russia's most prestigious literary awards.
The well-known Moscow publishing house "Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie" has
just published her collection of stories and essays under the title "The
Battle at Petersburg" as part of a new series devoted to fresh voices and
elegant, "difficult" prose that fall outside from "the intellectual
mainstream."
Two of the items in Rita's far- ranging volume are of particular interest
to Nabokovians:
One, "Otets, Syn, i Vsyo Ostal'noe" Father, son, & all the rest) is
devoted to meeting Dmitrii Nabokov in Berkeley,where he was giving a
masterclass on translation technique. Another, "Bony i Babochki,"
(Numismatisists & Butterflies) traces VN's relationship with a fellow
Russian emigre entomologist in Berlin, Nikolai Kardakov, and the surfacing
of a copy "King, Queen, Knave" inscribed by VN to Kardakov with an autograph
copy ohis poem "Babochki" Father's Butterflies introducing Russian readers
to it.
-----------------------------------------------------
The book (in Russian) is available at http://www.ozon.ru
The link to that item is:
http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/1545458/
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