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Dear Stan,
I would prefer a less quick answer. Let's try to think it through a
little more. It's hard for me to liken Nabokov to Mandelshtam - - who
he looked down on apparently. They did go to the same gymnasium, I
believe, the one to which Nabokov was driven by the family chauffeur.
Anyway Mandelshtam's fate was rather complicated you know.
I also don't see Nabokov as being like Babel in any way (I should
think he would not have felt flattered by the comparison). Are you
saying that Nabokov would have been incapable of bowing to authority?
What I am saying is, did Nabokov have the right to criticize those who
stayed behind? I am thinking for example of Pasternak. Did Nabokov
forgive the murdered?
Carolyn
On May 18, 2010, at 9:55 PM, Stan Kelly-Bootle wrote:
Carolyn asks: Has anyone ever speculated, by the way, as to what kind
of soviet writer Nabokov would have made?
The quick answer is a MURDERED Soviet writer, like Mandelstam and Babel.
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I would prefer a less quick answer. Let's try to think it through a
little more. It's hard for me to liken Nabokov to Mandelshtam - - who
he looked down on apparently. They did go to the same gymnasium, I
believe, the one to which Nabokov was driven by the family chauffeur.
Anyway Mandelshtam's fate was rather complicated you know.
I also don't see Nabokov as being like Babel in any way (I should
think he would not have felt flattered by the comparison). Are you
saying that Nabokov would have been incapable of bowing to authority?
What I am saying is, did Nabokov have the right to criticize those who
stayed behind? I am thinking for example of Pasternak. Did Nabokov
forgive the murdered?
Carolyn
On May 18, 2010, at 9:55 PM, Stan Kelly-Bootle wrote:
Carolyn asks: Has anyone ever speculated, by the way, as to what kind
of soviet writer Nabokov would have made?
The quick answer is a MURDERED Soviet writer, like Mandelstam and Babel.
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