Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0007499, Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:49:55 -0800

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Kafka, Mann, Nabokov. (fwd)
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Also a correction: Professor Toker's address was listed with a missing "t"
in the message yesterday concerning Partial Answers. It should read:
toker@h2.hum.huji.ac.il

From: Aline & Alexander <drescher@bcn.net>

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If one regards reading as an happy event between an author and a reader,
preferences [Kafka, Mann, Nabokov] are no more than variations in
connectivity: who with whom., how, and why. The last variable, why, seems an
important and often limiting subtext in many Nabokov-L discussions.
The dyadic search for an author in his own context is another,
particularly pleasurable approach.

-Sandy Drescher

Galya Diment wrote:

> From: Mary Krimmel <mary@krimmel.net>
>
> At 07:30 AM 1/30/03 -0800, Dieter Zimmer wrote:
>
> "... Nabokov also greatly preferred Kafka to Thomas Mann, and to my mind it
> is all but impossible to equally appreciate them both; it's either one or
> the other."
>
> No scholar, but somewhat introspective as well as Nabokophilic, now I
> wonder which I appreciate - Kafka or Mann? I've only read translations, but
> more than one work by each. If "equally appreciate" means anything, how do
> we compare? I can't even say which I prefer.
>
> Mary Krimmel