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From: Susan Sweeney <sweeney@HOLYCROSS.EDU>
This reply is relevant to Nabokov studies, I promise!
First, I can't help responding to Peter Kartsev that "social advantages"
create their own limitations for writers, too. That said, I agree with him
that VN's works definitely reflect VN's own privileged background as
well as his loss of the same.
Secondly, I can't resist pointing out that Andrew Field, VN's erstwhile
biographer, published a novel a few years ago that was narrated by
Oxford, was exuberantly metafictional, and of course took an
anti-Stradfordian stance.
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor of English
Holy Cross College
Worcester, MA 01610
Telephone (508) 793-2690
This reply is relevant to Nabokov studies, I promise!
First, I can't help responding to Peter Kartsev that "social advantages"
create their own limitations for writers, too. That said, I agree with him
that VN's works definitely reflect VN's own privileged background as
well as his loss of the same.
Secondly, I can't resist pointing out that Andrew Field, VN's erstwhile
biographer, published a novel a few years ago that was narrated by
Oxford, was exuberantly metafictional, and of course took an
anti-Stradfordian stance.
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor of English
Holy Cross College
Worcester, MA 01610
Telephone (508) 793-2690