Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0021379, Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:18:45 +0300

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Re: Fw: [NABOKV-L] Jakob Gradus
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JM: I couldn't understand the meaning in AS's final sentence: did Vivian Calmbrood attack Ivanov assuming the role of Johnson, or did he address Ivanov as Johnson?

Because John = Ivan, Johnson is the English counterpart of Russian Ivanov. In Vivian Calmbrood's poem Chenston (the fictitious poet to whom Pushkin ascribed "The Covetous Knight") mentions a certain Johnson whom they beat with a candlestick for a marked article.

Alexey Sklyarenko

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