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Nabokov's admirers: Edmund White
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from Ken Tapscott, kentapscott@hotmail.com:
Another author who has written "under the shadow" of Nabokov is Edmund
White, more so in his earlier books than in his more recent, fairly
autobiographical works. White is certainly conscious of Nabokov's
supremacy
as a stylist. White's first novel, _Forgetting Elena_, was one of the
rare
works by a young contemporary author which Nabokov praised in print, a
rare
honor indeed, and it was the reason I first became acquainted with
White's
books. (I would also add that _all_ the writers Nabokov referred to
favorably in interviews are worth investigating. It was through him that
I
first became aware of Queneau, who is, next to Proust, my favorite
French
novelist of the XXth Century. Franz Hellens, whom Nabokov also praised,
is
all but forgotten, a sort of French-language Borges from Belgium, from
the
early part of the century, and even in French his works are seldom in
university libraries in this country, which is a real shame.)
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from Ken Tapscott, kentapscott@hotmail.com:
Another author who has written "under the shadow" of Nabokov is Edmund
White, more so in his earlier books than in his more recent, fairly
autobiographical works. White is certainly conscious of Nabokov's
supremacy
as a stylist. White's first novel, _Forgetting Elena_, was one of the
rare
works by a young contemporary author which Nabokov praised in print, a
rare
honor indeed, and it was the reason I first became acquainted with
White's
books. (I would also add that _all_ the writers Nabokov referred to
favorably in interviews are worth investigating. It was through him that
I
first became aware of Queneau, who is, next to Proust, my favorite
French
novelist of the XXth Century. Franz Hellens, whom Nabokov also praised,
is
all but forgotten, a sort of French-language Borges from Belgium, from
the
early part of the century, and even in French his works are seldom in
university libraries in this country, which is a real shame.)
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