Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0003863, Tue, 6 Apr 1999 16:26:12 -0700

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Re: Auberon Waugh: Book of the Century (fwd)
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> PS Would anyone like to join me in making out a case for Nabokov as
> predominantly an English author, rather than a Russian or American?
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I do not say this because it is what VN would have liked to
hear... but why must we categorize him? He is truly cosmopolitan
- defying the literary straitjacket of English author/American
author/Russian author/(? French author).

Lynne Walker