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From: "Hanny Hindi" <hanny@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:58 AM
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> I would like to first thank everyone who provided information on possible
> links between VN and Augustine. Thanks especially to Prof. Boyd for the
> lengthy set of allusions from VN's later works.
>
> When I saw Prof. Boyd's suggestion for a list of VN's reading, I thought
> that he was correct in citing it as a desideratum. However, I thought
that
> a more urgent task was that of collecting all of VN's early writings, much
> of it on other writers and hitherto inaccessible to most. The news about
> "Nabokov o Nabokove i Prochem" ("Nabokov about Nabokov and other things")
> could not have been better (and I hope a translation will soon follow!)
> Along the same lines, are there plans to republish _Poems and Problems_ or
> _Three Russian Poets_? At the moment, both are quite rare and
expensive...
>
> On the topic of the proposed list, I would add one further suggestion.
> Wherever possible, can specific editions and translations be cited? The
> type of problem I am trying to avoid would include a scholar, 20 years
from
> now, doing research on the use of Proust in _The Gift_, and finding all
> sorts of missed allusions. What's the problem? Our hypothetical
researcher
> is using Tadie's text, only recently available, and the passages he is
> citing are nowhere to be found in the editions of the _Recherche_ VN would
> have know. I've recently spent a good bit of time researching Descartes,
> and for over a decade scholars have been correcting similar errors by
> replacing "Descartes read Aristotle" with "Descartes read Aristotle in
> such-and-such a translation with such-and-such a commentary appended." I
> thought it might be possible to skip this step.
>
> To this end, is the catalog of VN's library at Montreux readily available
> somehow? Putting it online at "zembla" seems a good way to start.
>
> Best,
>
> hh
>
>
>
>
From: "Hanny Hindi" <hanny@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:58 AM
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (35
lines) ------------------
> I would like to first thank everyone who provided information on possible
> links between VN and Augustine. Thanks especially to Prof. Boyd for the
> lengthy set of allusions from VN's later works.
>
> When I saw Prof. Boyd's suggestion for a list of VN's reading, I thought
> that he was correct in citing it as a desideratum. However, I thought
that
> a more urgent task was that of collecting all of VN's early writings, much
> of it on other writers and hitherto inaccessible to most. The news about
> "Nabokov o Nabokove i Prochem" ("Nabokov about Nabokov and other things")
> could not have been better (and I hope a translation will soon follow!)
> Along the same lines, are there plans to republish _Poems and Problems_ or
> _Three Russian Poets_? At the moment, both are quite rare and
expensive...
>
> On the topic of the proposed list, I would add one further suggestion.
> Wherever possible, can specific editions and translations be cited? The
> type of problem I am trying to avoid would include a scholar, 20 years
from
> now, doing research on the use of Proust in _The Gift_, and finding all
> sorts of missed allusions. What's the problem? Our hypothetical
researcher
> is using Tadie's text, only recently available, and the passages he is
> citing are nowhere to be found in the editions of the _Recherche_ VN would
> have know. I've recently spent a good bit of time researching Descartes,
> and for over a decade scholars have been correcting similar errors by
> replacing "Descartes read Aristotle" with "Descartes read Aristotle in
> such-and-such a translation with such-and-such a commentary appended." I
> thought it might be possible to skip this step.
>
> To this end, is the catalog of VN's library at Montreux readily available
> somehow? Putting it online at "zembla" seems a good way to start.
>
> Best,
>
> hh
>
>
>
>