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Dmitri Nabokov replies to Alexander Dolinin
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EDITOR's NOTE. Alexander Dolinin to whom Dmitri Nabokov responds below, is
the leading Russian Nabokovian. He holds appointment at the University of
Wisconsin and Pushkin House in St. Petersburg. The author of numerous
articles on Nabokov, he is currently completing an English language
monograph. His extremely important article "Nabokov's Time Doubling: From
THE GIFT to LOLITA" appeared in NABOKOV STUDIES #2 (1995), PP. 3-40.
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An amicable rejoinder to Alexander Dolinin, who has been of enormous
help to me in many matters:
Contrary to what friend Dolinin affirms in a very interesting small piece
entitled "Life after Beheading: Nabokov and Charles Nodier" in the
particularly successful fall NABOKOVIAN, Nabokov did mention his
affinity with Schopenhauer -- to me, near the summit of la Videmanette, in
Rougemont, Switzerland, on our last butterfly tramp together, not long
before his death, during a memorable conversation that I have described
more fully in OUR LIVES and elsewhere. What VN said was that, as
Schopenhauer might have put it, what he set down was akin to already
exposed but still undeveloped film, ready in his mind but for the actual
writing.
DN
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
the leading Russian Nabokovian. He holds appointment at the University of
Wisconsin and Pushkin House in St. Petersburg. The author of numerous
articles on Nabokov, he is currently completing an English language
monograph. His extremely important article "Nabokov's Time Doubling: From
THE GIFT to LOLITA" appeared in NABOKOV STUDIES #2 (1995), PP. 3-40.
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An amicable rejoinder to Alexander Dolinin, who has been of enormous
help to me in many matters:
Contrary to what friend Dolinin affirms in a very interesting small piece
entitled "Life after Beheading: Nabokov and Charles Nodier" in the
particularly successful fall NABOKOVIAN, Nabokov did mention his
affinity with Schopenhauer -- to me, near the summit of la Videmanette, in
Rougemont, Switzerland, on our last butterfly tramp together, not long
before his death, during a memorable conversation that I have described
more fully in OUR LIVES and elsewhere. What VN said was that, as
Schopenhauer might have put it, what he set down was akin to already
exposed but still undeveloped film, ready in his mind but for the actual
writing.
DN
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618