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Hmmmm-I thought I was the only one who was bored by Dr. Zhivago. I usually feel obligated to read through any book once I had started it, but I couldn't finish Dr. Zhivago, even though that was a time in my life when I had time enough. Nor have I seen the film, although like many males I am admirer of Julie Christie.
Eric Hyman
Professor of English
Graduate Coordinator
Department of English and Foreign Languages
Fayetteville State University
1200 Murchison Rd.
Fayetteville, NC 28301
(910) 672-1901
ehyman@uncfsu.edu
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On Behalf Of Don Johnson
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Doctor Zhivago--without a second's thought. The novel sucks BTW. Best, Don
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Subject: [NABOKV-L] QUERY: A challenge for Nabokovians
Can anyone identify the author of the following few sentences? I will
tell you that the author wrote in Russian and that these examples are
from a translation into English. I also will divulge that the author
was a contemporary of Nabokov. I would also like to hear, with or
without identifying the author, reactions to these few excerpts:
"Outside there was no trace of the road ... nothing but the blizzard,
the air smoking with snow. .... Turning over and over in the sky,
length after length of whiteness unwound over the earth and shrouded
it."
"In the kitchen garden there was nothing except some acacia bushes
around the wall .... With each blast of wind the acacias danced as if
possessed then lay down flat along the path."
"How enchanting this place was! Orioles kept making their clear three-
note calls, stopping each time just long enough to let the countryside
suck in the moist fluting sounds down to the last vibration. A heavy
fragrance, motionless, as though having lost its way in the air, was
fixed by the heat above the flower beds. This brought back memories of
Antibes and Bordighera."
Carolyn Kunin
p.s. Jansy must be recused, as she knows something of what I'm up to.
p.p.s No googling, please.
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Graduate Coordinator
Department of English and Foreign Languages
Fayetteville State University
1200 Murchison Rd.
Fayetteville, NC 28301
(910) 672-1901
ehyman@uncfsu.edu
From: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] On Behalf Of Don Johnson
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 5:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] QUERY: A challenge for Nabokovians
Doctor Zhivago--without a second's thought. The novel sucks BTW. Best, Don
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Subject: [NABOKV-L] QUERY: A challenge for Nabokovians
Can anyone identify the author of the following few sentences? I will
tell you that the author wrote in Russian and that these examples are
from a translation into English. I also will divulge that the author
was a contemporary of Nabokov. I would also like to hear, with or
without identifying the author, reactions to these few excerpts:
"Outside there was no trace of the road ... nothing but the blizzard,
the air smoking with snow. .... Turning over and over in the sky,
length after length of whiteness unwound over the earth and shrouded
it."
"In the kitchen garden there was nothing except some acacia bushes
around the wall .... With each blast of wind the acacias danced as if
possessed then lay down flat along the path."
"How enchanting this place was! Orioles kept making their clear three-
note calls, stopping each time just long enough to let the countryside
suck in the moist fluting sounds down to the last vibration. A heavy
fragrance, motionless, as though having lost its way in the air, was
fixed by the heat above the flower beds. This brought back memories of
Antibes and Bordighera."
Carolyn Kunin
p.s. Jansy must be recused, as she knows something of what I'm up to.
p.p.s No googling, please.
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