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The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) that arrived today. Christopher Reid in his "Freelance" column (p.13) makes an extended and most amusing comparison between the dish-washing scenes in Nicholson Baker's new _A Box of Matches_ in and Nabokov's _Pnin_.
George Steiner offers a review essay on Henri Bergson that for me, at least, clarifies the relationship between Bergson's and Nabokov's views on time (6-7). (VN is not mentioned
Most marginally, a review of a volume of reportage on Berlin 1920-1925 by German journalist and novelist Joseph Roth (What I Saw) that sounds like it might provide useful background for VN's early years there.
The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) that arrived today. Christopher Reid in his "Freelance" column (p.13) makes an extended and most amusing comparison between the dish-washing scenes in Nicholson Baker's new _A Box of Matches_ in and Nabokov's _Pnin_.
George Steiner offers a review essay on Henri Bergson that for me, at least, clarifies the relationship between Bergson's and Nabokov's views on time (6-7). (VN is not mentioned
Most marginally, a review of a volume of reportage on Berlin 1920-1925 by German journalist and novelist Joseph Roth (What I Saw) that sounds like it might provide useful background for VN's early years there.