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From: "sam schuman" <schumans@mrs.umn.edu>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> Nabokovians keep bumping up against V.S. Naipaul as an alphabetic
accident:
> he is so often right there in the bibliography or card catalog next to our
> man. It was interesting to read these words in his 2001 Nobel Lecture,
> reprinted in the May, 2002 issue of PMLA:
>
> I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political
> idea....My father, who wrote his stories in a very dark time, and for no
> reward, had no political idea. Perhaps it is because we have been far
from
> authority for many centuries. It gives us a special point of view. I
feel
> we are more inclined to see the humour and pity of things.
>
> Sam
>
> Samuel Schuman
> Chancellor
> The University of Minnesota, Morris
> Morris, MN 56267
> schumans@mrs.umn.edu
> 320-589-6020
>
>
From: "sam schuman" <schumans@mrs.umn.edu>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (21
lines) ------------------
> Nabokovians keep bumping up against V.S. Naipaul as an alphabetic
accident:
> he is so often right there in the bibliography or card catalog next to our
> man. It was interesting to read these words in his 2001 Nobel Lecture,
> reprinted in the May, 2002 issue of PMLA:
>
> I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political
> idea....My father, who wrote his stories in a very dark time, and for no
> reward, had no political idea. Perhaps it is because we have been far
from
> authority for many centuries. It gives us a special point of view. I
feel
> we are more inclined to see the humour and pity of things.
>
> Sam
>
> Samuel Schuman
> Chancellor
> The University of Minnesota, Morris
> Morris, MN 56267
> schumans@mrs.umn.edu
> 320-589-6020
>
>