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Nabokov's birthday (circumstance)
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Discussing the shift from Julian to Gregorian calendars that transposed
his birthdate to this day--April 23--Nabokov noted that "all [his]
birthdays were celebrated, with diminishing pomp, in the twentieth
century" (Speak, Memory, p. 13). As that century progressed toward its
end, however, the fanfare increased: from the wonderful festschrift for
his seventieth birthday in Triquarterly 17 (1970), reprinted as Nabokov:
Criticism, Reminiscences, Translations and Tributes, ed. Alfred Appel,
Jr. and Charles Newman (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press,
1970), to the marvelous centenary celebrations, ceremonies, conferences,
and collections just seven years ago.
Today NABOKV-L marks his birthday, as we have done each year. May this
date's significance to the readers of the world keep growing in the
twenty-first century!
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Co-Editor, NABOKV-L
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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his birthdate to this day--April 23--Nabokov noted that "all [his]
birthdays were celebrated, with diminishing pomp, in the twentieth
century" (Speak, Memory, p. 13). As that century progressed toward its
end, however, the fanfare increased: from the wonderful festschrift for
his seventieth birthday in Triquarterly 17 (1970), reprinted as Nabokov:
Criticism, Reminiscences, Translations and Tributes, ed. Alfred Appel,
Jr. and Charles Newman (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press,
1970), to the marvelous centenary celebrations, ceremonies, conferences,
and collections just seven years ago.
Today NABOKV-L marks his birthday, as we have done each year. May this
date's significance to the readers of the world keep growing in the
twenty-first century!
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Co-Editor, NABOKV-L
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm