Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: Joyce Versus VN
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To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:14:38 -0400

In reply to Sergey Karpukhin's question regarding Richard Ellmann's lack of any reference to Nabokov in the 1965 edition of his Joyce biography, I have no information about the 1985 revision of the biography. However, I can state that when I graded for Ellmann at Yale in his Spring 1970 class on the Modern British, Irish, and American novel, we did spend one week on PALE FIRE (or would have, if there hadn't been a campus-wide strike on behalf of the Black Panthers before we got to Nabokov). Incidentally, we spent 6 of the 14 weeks of the course on ULYSSES. Hemingway and Fitzgerald got just one week, together.

John Foster.