Subject: Re: book
From: yuri leving <[email-masked]>
To: "D. Barton Johnson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:51:52 +0200

Dear Don,
Thank you very much for congratulations. I've tried to save the same picture under different names and to attach two versions. Please, let me know if any of them works.
Yours,
YL

----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Barton Johnson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Saturday, July 31, 2004 4:48 am
Subject: Re: Y. Leving¡¯s ¡°Nabokov and Poetics of Russian Urbanism¡± 

> Yuri...Congratulations. I look forward to reading it. I cannot opne your 
> picture of the the book's cover. Do you want to try sending the image 
> again? Or I can just run the verbal text.  Best, Don
> 
> --On Saturday, July 31, 2004 2:09 AM +0200 yuri leving <[email-masked]> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Yuri Leving’s book “Train Station ? Garage ? Hangar (Vladimir Nabokov and
> > Poetics of Russian Urbanism)” [in Russian: Vokzal-Garazh-Angar: Vladimir
> > Nabokov i poetika russkogo urbanizma] is published by Ivan Limbakh
> > Publishing House (St. Petersburg, 2004. 400 pp., illustrations, hard
> > cover. ISBN 5-89059-057-X).  See the picture of the book cover attached
> > below.
> >
> > Nabokov’s works are examined from the specific point of view of poetics
> > of urbanism, a phenomenon that the author examines within the context of
> > Russian and European literature of the XIX ? beginning of the XX century.
> > The book encompasses a broad territory of literary modernism, exploring
> > three major motifs: train, automobile, and airplane.  The book contains a
> > number of previouslly unpublished photographs and drawings by Vladimir
> > Nabokov, printed by special arrangement with The Estate of Vladimir
> > Nabokov and by courtesy of Berg Collection, The New York Public Library.
> >
> > The book may be purchased on-line at www.esterum.com (Price: $29.90),
> > http://www.esterum.com/search.aspx?id=3776c2d151934896abeeea71cf7378cc&mo
> > de=quick&section=store&query=leving&submit.x=32&submit.y=7
> >
> > Or at www.ozon.com (Price: 455 rubles, about $15.99).
> > http://www.ozon.ru/?context=detail&id=1818971
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> D. Barton Johnson
> NABOKV-L
>