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Best VN story?
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From: "Welch, Rodney" <RWelch@SCES.ORG>
What is the consensus of opinion here regarding Nabokov's best
story?
"Aleppo" ranks rather low on my own list, and I suspect Updike chose
it because it's a less obvious choice than "Signs and Symbols" (VN's very
best, to my mind) or such gems as "The Vane Sisters," "Cloud, Castle, Lake,"
"Perfection," "Spring in Fialta" or "First Love" ("that darling of
anthologists," as VN himself once put it.)
I'd be interested to know what single story other Nabokovians would
select.
Rodney Welch
Columbia, SC
---Original Message-----
From: Donald Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu]
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 1999 1:42 PM
To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
Subject: VN Bibliography (fwd)
From: Earl Sampson <esampson@cu.campuscwix.net>
FYI: VN is represented by "That in Aleppo Once..." in THE BEST AMERICAN
SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY (Houghton Mifflin, eds. John Updike and
Katrina Kenison).
What is the consensus of opinion here regarding Nabokov's best
story?
"Aleppo" ranks rather low on my own list, and I suspect Updike chose
it because it's a less obvious choice than "Signs and Symbols" (VN's very
best, to my mind) or such gems as "The Vane Sisters," "Cloud, Castle, Lake,"
"Perfection," "Spring in Fialta" or "First Love" ("that darling of
anthologists," as VN himself once put it.)
I'd be interested to know what single story other Nabokovians would
select.
Rodney Welch
Columbia, SC
---Original Message-----
From: Donald Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu]
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 1999 1:42 PM
To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
Subject: VN Bibliography (fwd)
From: Earl Sampson <esampson@cu.campuscwix.net>
FYI: VN is represented by "That in Aleppo Once..." in THE BEST AMERICAN
SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY (Houghton Mifflin, eds. John Updike and
Katrina Kenison).