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NEWS: VN fans among celebrities; addendum to Alexey's post
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from A. Sklyarenko to the List:
In an interview with him that I chanced to see last night on TV, the
popular British actor Hugh Grant said that his favorite writer was
Nabokov. (Grant almost succeeded in pronouncing this name correctly, as
Russians pronounce it.)
Another Nabokov fan is famously John Updike. In an interview with him
(seen a couple of months ago) he said that it took him only two or three
days to read Tolstoy's "War and Piece." I wonder how long did it take
him to read VN's translation, with Commentary, of Pushkin's "Evgeniy
Onegin" that Updike boasted also having read?
Returning to my yesterday's post: I forgot to indicate my email (to
which please write if you want to help me): skylark05@mail.ru. Also, I
would like to add that I found a wonderful passage in a Turgenev letter
to Viardot that can be used as an epigraph to my piece:
Довольно крупный зайчонок третьего дня утонул во рвах.
Как и почему? Об этом ничего нельзя сказать. Покончил
ли он с собой? Но ведь в его возрасте ещё верится в
счастье. (из письма Тургенева Полине Виардо)
Another detail absent from the essay version sent to the List is that
Turgenev's father was a perfect Don Juan (as pointed out by Zaitsev in
his "Zhizn' Turgeneva").
greetings to all,
Alexey
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In an interview with him that I chanced to see last night on TV, the
popular British actor Hugh Grant said that his favorite writer was
Nabokov. (Grant almost succeeded in pronouncing this name correctly, as
Russians pronounce it.)
Another Nabokov fan is famously John Updike. In an interview with him
(seen a couple of months ago) he said that it took him only two or three
days to read Tolstoy's "War and Piece." I wonder how long did it take
him to read VN's translation, with Commentary, of Pushkin's "Evgeniy
Onegin" that Updike boasted also having read?
Returning to my yesterday's post: I forgot to indicate my email (to
which please write if you want to help me): skylark05@mail.ru. Also, I
would like to add that I found a wonderful passage in a Turgenev letter
to Viardot that can be used as an epigraph to my piece:
Довольно крупный зайчонок третьего дня утонул во рвах.
Как и почему? Об этом ничего нельзя сказать. Покончил
ли он с собой? Но ведь в его возрасте ещё верится в
счастье. (из письма Тургенева Полине Виардо)
Another detail absent from the essay version sent to the List is that
Turgenev's father was a perfect Don Juan (as pointed out by Zaitsev in
his "Zhizn' Turgeneva").
greetings to all,
Alexey
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