Dear List,

Are there any news of professor Rydel's A Nabokov Who's Who? Is the project still ongoing, has it been shelved, or is it complete and looking for a publisher? The effort and the complexity of the endeavor are staggering, so a lengthy gestation is beyond understandable. (The last mention I found of it on the list is in 2001.) At any rate, it's such a wonderful idea: a catalog of every name and figure in Nabokov's oeuvre! 

I was thinking, too, that -- if the project has for any reason stalled -- this sort of concordance would work well as a Wiki (ala Wikipedia, or the Pynchon Wiki, or any number of crowdsourced projects which, however real and considerable their limitations, may prove useful). It's the kind of thing that may benefit from extensive, distributed collaboration.

Thoughts? I'm waist-deep in dissertation stuff, but I'm wondering if list members would be at all interested in this sort of project, if appropriate -- it seems like the sort of work that could prove useful. (It would certainly prove useful to me: the proposal's borne partly out sheer self-interest.)

Best,

Juan

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Juan Martinez
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