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From: "Susan Elizabeth Sweeney" <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
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Subject: Nabokov and Borges
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> I am not so sure that Nabokov's admiration of Borges waned in any way.
While Nabokov vociferously resisted any intimations that he had been
influenced by anyone, including Borges (one of those people whose names
"always begin with a B" to whom he was compared), his comments on Borges's
"miniature labyrinths" in SO are consistently approving. The "good-natured
anagram" in ADA is, at heart, a considerable compliment, since Osberg
becomes the Antiterran author of LOLITA.
>
> Those interested in connections between the two might wish to read Borges'
remarks at the first Cornell Nabokov festival (published as The Achievements
of Vladimir Nabokov)--although he says little about VN and even claims to be
unfamiliar with LOLITA. Also, I highly recommend Patricia Merivale's
classic essay on "The Flaunting of Artifice in Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge
Luis Borges" (in Nabokov: The Man and His Work).
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> Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
> Associate Professor of English
> Holy Cross College
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From: "Susan Elizabeth Sweeney" <ssweeney@holycross.edu>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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Subject: Nabokov and Borges
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> Hello to Brian and others,
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> I am not so sure that Nabokov's admiration of Borges waned in any way.
While Nabokov vociferously resisted any intimations that he had been
influenced by anyone, including Borges (one of those people whose names
"always begin with a B" to whom he was compared), his comments on Borges's
"miniature labyrinths" in SO are consistently approving. The "good-natured
anagram" in ADA is, at heart, a considerable compliment, since Osberg
becomes the Antiterran author of LOLITA.
>
> Those interested in connections between the two might wish to read Borges'
remarks at the first Cornell Nabokov festival (published as The Achievements
of Vladimir Nabokov)--although he says little about VN and even claims to be
unfamiliar with LOLITA. Also, I highly recommend Patricia Merivale's
classic essay on "The Flaunting of Artifice in Vladimir Nabokov and Jorge
Luis Borges" (in Nabokov: The Man and His Work).
>
> Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
> Associate Professor of English
> Holy Cross College
>
>