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Dear Members of the Forum,
I want to beg your pardon because I havenÂ’t answered you before about your
comments to my question that concern to Borges and Nabokov. The fact was
that I couldnÂ’t understand the functioning of the forum and I didnÂ’t see
these answers.
I am grateful very much for the commentaries of Jansy Berndt de Souza
Mello, Brian Boyd, Dmitri Nabokov and A.A.
Looking at the previous discussions that have existed in the forum about
Borges, I have compiled a small bibliography:
1. Boegeman, Margaret, Paradox Gained: Kafka's Reception in English
from 1930 to 1949 and His Influence on the Early Fiction of Borges, Beckett
and Nabokov, Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI. 38
(1977): 780A-81A.
2. Everlasting Men. Vladimir Nabokov, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Jorge
Luis Borges // Schreibheft: Zeitschrift fĂĽr Literatur, Schreibheft 50,
Rigodon-Verlag Essen, 1997
3. Mangel, Alberto, Con Borges, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2004 (Tr.
Eduardo Berti)
4. Morosaka, Shigetoshi, “The Tiger Hunt” as Menonymy Nakajima
Atsushi, 2002
5. Noble, John Partridge, Postmodernist Fiction: Theological Language
and Moral Vision in Borges, Nabokov, and Pynchon, University of Virginia,
Ph.D. 1992.
6. Schneiderman, Leo, The literary mind: portraits in pain and
creativity, New York, Human Sciences Press, 1988
7. Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth, “Subject-Cases” and “Book-Cases”:
Impostures and Forgeries from Poe to Auster” // Detecting Texts: The
Metaphysical Detective Story From Poe to Postmodernism. (Ed. by Patricia
Merivale and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney), Philadelphia, University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1999
8. Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth, The V-Shaped Paradigm: Nabokov and
Pynchon, Cycnos, v. 12, no. 2, 1995, pp. 173-180.
9. VerĂssimo, Luis Fernando, Banquete com os deuses: Cinema,
Literatura, MĂşsica e Outras Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Objetiva, 2003
There is a very valuable added one to my short bibliography.
To continue with the topic Borges and Nabokov, IÂ’ll offer the following
information (probably known by you?).
In 1959 the editorial SUR (Buenos Aires) published "Lolita". Immediately
the authority of the city prohibited this book and took the edition,
classified as immoral, away. The Argentineans writers (21) protested
against this action (sisters Ocampo, Juan Alfonso Vázquez, Eduardo González
Lanuza, Carlos Mastronardi, Ernesto Sábato, MarĂa Rosa Oliver, Alicia
Jurado, Guillermo de Torre, Manuel Mujica Láinez, Enrique Pezzoni, Jorge
Luis Borges). Their opinion was printed in 260 number of magazine SUR, in
the form of an answer to the questionnaire (El caso "Lolita" // Sur, n and
* 186; 260, Buenos Aires, 09/1959-10/1959). Borges declared that he hadnÂ’t
read “Lolita” and he had no intention to read it, saying that the length of
the novelistic genre doesnÂ’t agree with the brevity of a human life and
darkness of his eyes. ItÂ’s curious, but in the same article Enrique Pezzoni
has noted, that the Argentineans already knew Nabokov's work with the
publication of his story "Visite au musée" in Lettres françaises (Does
anyone know this publication?).It is necessary to indicate that Borges -
the tireless reader and the promoter of the modern and classical literature
in the Argentinean public (reviews in Hogar, for example), - who was fluent
in English and German, theoretically, before 1955, year in which his
doctors prohibited him to read, could have known many of Nabokov's novels
(it is enough to consult the Bryan Boyd's biography). Nevertheless, in my
opinion, in the theme Nabokov-Borges the most interesting are the external
details - the facts of the biography, formation, circle of reading and
some “mental structures” jointly -, which created the necessary conditions
for the appearance of some "telepathic" connections (That is not very grand
in the way of telepathy (Appel, 1967)).
My excuses for my very bad English,
Nina Kresova
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I want to beg your pardon because I havenÂ’t answered you before about your
comments to my question that concern to Borges and Nabokov. The fact was
that I couldnÂ’t understand the functioning of the forum and I didnÂ’t see
these answers.
I am grateful very much for the commentaries of Jansy Berndt de Souza
Mello, Brian Boyd, Dmitri Nabokov and A.A.
Looking at the previous discussions that have existed in the forum about
Borges, I have compiled a small bibliography:
1. Boegeman, Margaret, Paradox Gained: Kafka's Reception in English
from 1930 to 1949 and His Influence on the Early Fiction of Borges, Beckett
and Nabokov, Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI. 38
(1977): 780A-81A.
2. Everlasting Men. Vladimir Nabokov, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Jorge
Luis Borges // Schreibheft: Zeitschrift fĂĽr Literatur, Schreibheft 50,
Rigodon-Verlag Essen, 1997
3. Mangel, Alberto, Con Borges, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2004 (Tr.
Eduardo Berti)
4. Morosaka, Shigetoshi, “The Tiger Hunt” as Menonymy Nakajima
Atsushi, 2002
5. Noble, John Partridge, Postmodernist Fiction: Theological Language
and Moral Vision in Borges, Nabokov, and Pynchon, University of Virginia,
Ph.D. 1992.
6. Schneiderman, Leo, The literary mind: portraits in pain and
creativity, New York, Human Sciences Press, 1988
7. Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth, “Subject-Cases” and “Book-Cases”:
Impostures and Forgeries from Poe to Auster” // Detecting Texts: The
Metaphysical Detective Story From Poe to Postmodernism. (Ed. by Patricia
Merivale and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney), Philadelphia, University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1999
8. Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth, The V-Shaped Paradigm: Nabokov and
Pynchon, Cycnos, v. 12, no. 2, 1995, pp. 173-180.
9. VerĂssimo, Luis Fernando, Banquete com os deuses: Cinema,
Literatura, MĂşsica e Outras Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Objetiva, 2003
There is a very valuable added one to my short bibliography.
To continue with the topic Borges and Nabokov, IÂ’ll offer the following
information (probably known by you?).
In 1959 the editorial SUR (Buenos Aires) published "Lolita". Immediately
the authority of the city prohibited this book and took the edition,
classified as immoral, away. The Argentineans writers (21) protested
against this action (sisters Ocampo, Juan Alfonso Vázquez, Eduardo González
Lanuza, Carlos Mastronardi, Ernesto Sábato, MarĂa Rosa Oliver, Alicia
Jurado, Guillermo de Torre, Manuel Mujica Láinez, Enrique Pezzoni, Jorge
Luis Borges). Their opinion was printed in 260 number of magazine SUR, in
the form of an answer to the questionnaire (El caso "Lolita" // Sur, n and
* 186; 260, Buenos Aires, 09/1959-10/1959). Borges declared that he hadnÂ’t
read “Lolita” and he had no intention to read it, saying that the length of
the novelistic genre doesnÂ’t agree with the brevity of a human life and
darkness of his eyes. ItÂ’s curious, but in the same article Enrique Pezzoni
has noted, that the Argentineans already knew Nabokov's work with the
publication of his story "Visite au musée" in Lettres françaises (Does
anyone know this publication?).It is necessary to indicate that Borges -
the tireless reader and the promoter of the modern and classical literature
in the Argentinean public (reviews in Hogar, for example), - who was fluent
in English and German, theoretically, before 1955, year in which his
doctors prohibited him to read, could have known many of Nabokov's novels
(it is enough to consult the Bryan Boyd's biography). Nevertheless, in my
opinion, in the theme Nabokov-Borges the most interesting are the external
details - the facts of the biography, formation, circle of reading and
some “mental structures” jointly -, which created the necessary conditions
for the appearance of some "telepathic" connections (That is not very grand
in the way of telepathy (Appel, 1967)).
My excuses for my very bad English,
Nina Kresova
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