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Fw: Fw: early Nabokov stories/Wingstroke
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From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Fw: early Nabokov stories/Wingstroke
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> Regarding D. Barton Johnson's post:
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> I hadn't heard of the English and Russian 'channels'.
> Indeed, I haven't read Boyd's Russian Years yet (I am
> ensconced in his American, still), but someone on
> another list pointed out that someone had accused
> Nabokov of improving his English (co-) translations of
> his early works. It's understandable.
>
> It made me think of the use of 'caprine' twice in
> 'Wingstroke', and, I can't find it now, also
> 'goatlike' in the same story to describe Monfiori's
> eyes. You cant help but wonder what the equivalent
> Russian terms were.
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> Brian
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From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: early Nabokov stories/Wingstroke
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> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (25
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> Regarding D. Barton Johnson's post:
>
> I hadn't heard of the English and Russian 'channels'.
> Indeed, I haven't read Boyd's Russian Years yet (I am
> ensconced in his American, still), but someone on
> another list pointed out that someone had accused
> Nabokov of improving his English (co-) translations of
> his early works. It's understandable.
>
> It made me think of the use of 'caprine' twice in
> 'Wingstroke', and, I can't find it now, also
> 'goatlike' in the same story to describe Monfiori's
> eyes. You cant help but wonder what the equivalent
> Russian terms were.
>
> Brian
>
> =====
> http://www.elasticpress.com/sound_of_white_ants.htm
> http://www.tobypress.com/books/dance_geometry.htm
>
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