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To: don <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:49:19 -0800

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000501

95/03/13

19:37

30

Platon Nabokov (fwd)

000806

95/11/08

14:07

52

MLA VN Abstract: Varia (179) #3

002325

97/09/03

11:56

98

VN Bibliography

002764

98/01/30

08:47

25

Re: VN vs. Freud (fwd)

003748

99/03/03

11:26

57

Re: What does VN rail against? (fwd)

003789

99/03/15

14:21

307

Tallinn-Tartu Nabokov Conference Abstracts (fwd)

003955

99/04/21

08:57

601

Speak, Memory Among 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the Century (fwd)

004868

00/03/07

09:19

36

Far-flung Repute: From Plato to Picasso (fwd)

004988

00/04/07

19:57

34

Paris VN Conference. Nov. 1999: Averin abstract

005065

00/05/09

09:33

34

Fw: Pnin as featherless biped?

005492

00/09/27

20:12

648

Fw: VN Bibliography: Luxemburg & Rakhimkulova (fwd)

005704

01/02/16

11:56

94

Nabokov & the Gulag

006077

01/07/20

12:31

38

[Fwd: Re: restraining Socrates and egging on Joan of Arc in Speak, Memory]

006080

01/07/20

12:37

55

[Fwd: restraining Socrates]

006237

01/11/29

09:59

69

Query: Vn & Plato?

Item #501 (13 Mar 1995 19:37) - Platon Nabokov (fwd)

conjunction with Galya's Diment's note below) that the name PLATON

(Plato) Nabokov is an exquisite double oxymoron: Nabokov bouncing

between Plato (whom he despised) and the ultra-humble peasant Platon

Karataev of War & Peace fame. DBJ

Item #806 (8 Nov 1995 14:07) - MLA VN Abstract: Varia (179) #3

lantern' (elsewhere promoted by Nabokov as well), which in turn transmits the

allegory of Plato's cave--both the movie house in which Kretschmar meets

Magda and the movie world she dreams of entering turn out to be domains of

Item #2325 (3 Sep 1997 11:56) - VN Bibliography

butterflies, the movements of the stars, curious chess situations, certain

passages from Pope and Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Goethe.... I'm far

from having elucidated all of it and I'm dying to hear what other people

Item #2764 (30 Jan 1998 08:47) - Re: VN vs. Freud (fwd)

I think Karl Popper's "The Open Society and its Enemies" - wherein Freud,

Marx & Plato are given a throrough going-over, is probably worth mention.

Popper's basic reasons for detesting them shares the same intellectually,

classically Liberal (in the European sense) roots as Nabokov's (I don't

know what, if anything, VN thought about Plato, but it can't have been good).

Item #3748 (3 Mar 1999 11:26) - Re: What does VN rail against? (fwd)

Books that I was dragooned into, however briefly. (I think it was there that

I first read Plato's Republic.)

Item #3789 (15 Mar 1999 14:21) - Tallinn-Tartu Nabokov Conference Abstracts (fwd)

three mythologemma well-known in human culture. They are:

- Plato's cave where all people life is only reflection, only shadow of

real existence

Item #3955 (21 Apr 1999 08:57) - Speak, Memory Among 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the Century (fwd)

the 20th century. Exposes

totalitarianism's roots in Plato, Hegel, and

Marx."

Item #4868 (7 Mar 2000 09:19) - Far-flung Repute: From Plato to Picasso (fwd)

From: Donald Barton Johnson <[email-masked]>

Subject: Far-flung Repute: From Plato to Picasso (fwd)

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passage I had read some years ago.

On page 192 of Plato in the Italian Renaissance by James Hankins (Leiden,

New York, Kцln: 1994, 3rd impression):

author's reputation as the author does himself. George [of Trebizond

(1396-c. 1472)], by contrast, was so filled with contempt for Plato, and so

convinced of his malign influence, that he wanted him to appear as foolish,

Item #4988 (7 Apr 2000 19:57) - Paris VN Conference. Nov. 1999: Averin abstract

nostalgic. Our paper contests this interpretation.

There are two opposing views of memories. One goes back to Plato,

Epicurus, and Plotinus; it regards memory as a voluntary act. The other

Item #5065 (9 May 2000 09:33) - Fw: Pnin as featherless biped?

lines) ------------------

> Actually, the "featherless biped" story is told about Plato, in Diogenes

> Laertius (vi.40; Diogenes L. is a veritable treasure-house of mendacious

> anecdote about ancient philosophers). It makes Mr. Selleck's suggestion

> more intriguing, though, because VN may have been interested in Plato

> but was almost certainly not interested in Aristotle. Diogenes Laertius

> tells the story in his life of Diogenes the Cynic; the point of the

> story is that Diogenes attempted to disprove Plato's definition by

> producing a plucked chicken and saying "Here is Plato's man"; Plato

> didn't rise to the bait, but simply revised his definition by adding

> "with broad flat nails." (A lot of these marginal stories portray Plato

> as being much more like Aristotle, or the sophists, than we're

Item #5492 (27 Sep 2000 20:12) - Fw: VN Bibliography: Luxemburg & Rakhimkulova (fwd)

> its possibilities.

> The playing principle that had been discovered by Plato and

> developed by many later philosophers was theoretically enriched

Item #5704 (16 Feb 2001 11:56) - Nabokov & the Gulag

Invitation to a Beheading, Krug's painter neighbors have been deported

(as befits artists in a dystopian state ever since Plato's Republic) to

a remote prison camp-a collective allusion to both the Nazi Lagers and

Item #6077 (20 Jul 2001 12:31) - [Fwd: Re: restraining Socrates and egging on Joan of Arc in Speak, Memory]

Socrates claimed to be guided by a daimon, who spoke to him on

occasion. This is in many of Plato's dialogues.

Item #6080 (20 Jul 2001 12:37) - [Fwd: restraining Socrates]

> Our editor's Socratic musings raise the interesting question of

> Nabokov's reception of Plato -- how much of Plato had VN read and what

> specific use did he make of it in his writings? As David Andrews has

> is (or may be) alluded to in an early chapter of Speak, Memory, and that

> Nabokov once told an interviewer that he wouldn't have liked Plato's

> regime of "militarism and music" (or something similar -- I am away from

> quotes). I'm not sure whether the latter quote refers to the Republic or

> the Laws -- no one but a serious student of Plato would read the Laws,

> so that would be significant, but I suspect he was referring again to

> There's no doubt that Nabokov was familiar with the broader outlines of

> Plato's thought, but it would be useful to try to determine exactly

> WHICH specific dialogues he may have read. Any thoughts?

Item #6237 (29 Nov 2001 09:59) - Query: Vn & Plato?

From: "D. Barton Johnson" <[email-masked]>

Subject: Query: Vn & Plato?

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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 22:33:52 -0500

Is anyone aware of any substantive discussions of Nabokov's relation to

Plato?

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