Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0022886, Fri, 25 May 2012 17:39:49 +0100

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Interesting for the images it offers of VN's Cambridge. The thumping meter and Americanisms of the translation (soccer, British, ball) grate. I was reminded of McGonagall, though that I don't blame Vladimir for that. The piece shadows Pale Fire, both diminishing and elevating it as poetry.



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Written in 1926 but translated only recently, it seems, by DN.  In the London Review of Books (here).
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