AS/JM: for the Irish, it’s always PERFIDIOUS ALBION! The phrase is indivisibule!
While online: afraid I quickly tired of Updike’s explicit sex; after 2 promising rabbits! Did VN’s admiration last longer than mine?Just read the late David Foster Wallace’s biting critique quoted in today’s Times: “No US novelist has mapped the solipsist’s terrain better than Updike, whose rise in the 60s and 70s establshed him as both chronicler and voice of probably the single most self-absorbed generation since Louis XIV.”
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On 27/01/2009 00:49, "jansymello" <jansy@AETERN.US> wrote:
AS: Jansy tells me that I should have mentioned that Albion is the name of the island of Great Britain.
JM: For the benefit of foreign readers, I mean... During my childhood "Albion" was merely a brand of "gomma arabica" used at school.
btw: There's a mistake in my last posting on VN and R.Jacobson. The word "Formalist" was missing.
Cf. Michael Glynn's "Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in his novels" (palgrave,macmillan,2007)