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The Russian original (my literal translation):
"After you I've had four lovers, with each richer than the last. Now everything is just perfect. He has a consumptive wife abroad. He's just left for a month to visit her. He's not young, burley. He adores me".
The English translation by Dmitry and Vladimir Nabokov:
"I had only four lovers after you., but to make up for it, each was richer than the last, and now I'm exceptionally nicely established. He has a consumptive wife, the daughter of a general. She lives abroad. In fact, he has just left to spend a month with her at Davos. ("Goodness, I've been there last Christmas."). He is elderly and very chic. And he adores me."
As I've shown elsewhere, in his 'translation'-explicitation of this novel, Nabokov became more precise in terms of the topo-details and sort of 'smeared' the chrono-details. He even shortened the duration of the action by one day by not allowing Franz to go to Berlin to return the cigarette-case to Dreyer's American partner (the joke with the cigarette-case was dropped from the English version altogether).
Ljuba Tarvi
Helsinki
On 15.2.2015, at 15.34, Nabokv-L wrote:
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> Subject: Nabokov referring to Der zauberberg
> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:17:05 -0800
> From: Paul M.F. <modest.figeys@HOTMAIL.COM>
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> In Chapter 9 of 'King, Queen, Valet'
> Erica tells to Kurt Dreyer that she is now the mistress of and older and very 'chic' man. This man is married with the daughter of a general and she has TBC. She lives abroad . The man left now for Davos to be for a month with his wife. (my translation from the Dutch translation ).
>
> I can read this only as a reference to Thomas Mann and 'Der Zauberberg'.
> Can someone tell me if this reference was already present in the original version of the book in 1928.
> Was Nabokov criticizing Thomas Mann also at other occasions at these times ?
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"After you I've had four lovers, with each richer than the last. Now everything is just perfect. He has a consumptive wife abroad. He's just left for a month to visit her. He's not young, burley. He adores me".
The English translation by Dmitry and Vladimir Nabokov:
"I had only four lovers after you., but to make up for it, each was richer than the last, and now I'm exceptionally nicely established. He has a consumptive wife, the daughter of a general. She lives abroad. In fact, he has just left to spend a month with her at Davos. ("Goodness, I've been there last Christmas."). He is elderly and very chic. And he adores me."
As I've shown elsewhere, in his 'translation'-explicitation of this novel, Nabokov became more precise in terms of the topo-details and sort of 'smeared' the chrono-details. He even shortened the duration of the action by one day by not allowing Franz to go to Berlin to return the cigarette-case to Dreyer's American partner (the joke with the cigarette-case was dropped from the English version altogether).
Ljuba Tarvi
Helsinki
On 15.2.2015, at 15.34, Nabokv-L wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Nabokov referring to Der zauberberg
> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:17:05 -0800
> From: Paul M.F. <modest.figeys@HOTMAIL.COM>
> To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> CC: Paul M.F. <modest.figeys@HOTMAIL.COM>
>
>
> In Chapter 9 of 'King, Queen, Valet'
> Erica tells to Kurt Dreyer that she is now the mistress of and older and very 'chic' man. This man is married with the daughter of a general and she has TBC. She lives abroad . The man left now for Davos to be for a month with his wife. (my translation from the Dutch translation ).
>
> I can read this only as a reference to Thomas Mann and 'Der Zauberberg'.
> Can someone tell me if this reference was already present in the original version of the book in 1928.
> Was Nabokov criticizing Thomas Mann also at other occasions at these times ?
>
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