Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0001055, Tue, 26 Mar 1996 08:09:32 -0800

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ADA & Bulgakov's Monster (fwd)
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Sergey B. Ilyin <isb@glas.apc.org>, who is working on a Russian
translation of ADA, ran across the oddity below on the CD-ROM
encyclopedia that comes with the Microsoft Bookshelf. He thanks all who
responded to his "shamoes" (=chameaux=camels) query.
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Microsoft Bookshelf Copyright 1987 - 1994 Microsoft
Corporation. All Rights Reserved. The People's Chronology is
licensed from Henry Holt and Company, Inc. Copyright 1992 by
James Trager. All rights reserved.
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Literature, 1969
Fiction "Ada" by Vladimir Nabokov; "The Monster and Margarita"
by the late Soviet novelist Mikhail Bulgakov, who died in 1940
at age 48; "The Four-Gated City" by Doris Lessing; "them" by
Joyce Carol Oates; "Spring Snow" by Yukio Mishima; "Portnoy's
Complaint" by Philip Roth; "Slaughterhouse Five, or The
Children's Crusade" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; "Bullet Park" by John
Cheever; "The Godfather" by U.S. novelist Mario Puzo, 48, who
writes about the Mafia; "Between Life and Death (Entre la vie et
la mort)" by Nathalie Sarraute; "La vita e gioco" by Alberto
Moravia; "The Andromeda Strain" by Harvard Medical School
student Michael Crichton, 26.

"The People's Chronology" is the actual source of this
"umonelepitza".
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