Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0003976, Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:19:37 -0700

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Re: Russia Celebrates Nabokov's Birthday
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*** Here is another one for the collection -- "He spent his life being
kicked out of countries that now proudly boast he spent time on their
soil." I suspect I know what the author is trying to say but being forced
by circumstances to leave -- Russia, Germany, France -- is still not the
same as being "kicked out." They are probably recycling this line from
the AP Solzhenitsyn's article which appeared several months ago on his
birthday... GD***

From: "Thomas R. Walker" <trw3@midway.uchicago.edu>

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Galya Diment wrote:

> Just read the AP article more carefully -- "refined taste in music"? I
> wonder where they got that impression... Definitely not from Don!
>
> Galya Diment
>
Who can count the errors in the AP article? VN wrote "eight English novels
in France"? If I count Switzerland as part of France - no, I still don't
get eight. And can there possibly have been 33 editions of "Lolita"
in Russia in the last dozen years?

Tom Walker
Dept of Economics
University of Chicago