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Re: Fw: Query: Nabokov's Disciples ?
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EDITOR's NOTE: VN indicated several stories that he especially liked in an
article entitled "Inspiration" that appeared in the old _Saturday Review_.
Perhaps someone has it at hand?
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From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@hotpop.com>
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>I've heard that Nabokov was a fan of JD Salinger and have often wondered if
>Salinger was a fan of Nabokov too. After all, they share many themes -
>observe for example the characters of Sebastian Knight and Seymour Glass -
>and a self-referential pre-postmodernist attitude to their fiction.
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>Camille Scaysbrook
>P.S. I don't suppose anyone knows what exact stories were Nabokov's
>favourites?
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>> >I'd say Kurt Vonnegut - not so much stylistically, because Vonnegut's
>style
>> >is much simpler, but in their approach to time and narration. The goal
of
>> >"Pnin" and "Slaughterhouse-Five", for instance, is virtually the same -
>to
>> >describe the narrator's experience by reference to a similar observed
>main
>> >character.
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>> >Seth D. Michaels
>> >Brandeis University
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article entitled "Inspiration" that appeared in the old _Saturday Review_.
Perhaps someone has it at hand?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@hotpop.com>
>
>----------------- Message requiring your approval (24
lines) ------------------
>I've heard that Nabokov was a fan of JD Salinger and have often wondered if
>Salinger was a fan of Nabokov too. After all, they share many themes -
>observe for example the characters of Sebastian Knight and Seymour Glass -
>and a self-referential pre-postmodernist attitude to their fiction.
>
>Camille Scaysbrook
>P.S. I don't suppose anyone knows what exact stories were Nabokov's
>favourites?
>
>> >----------------- Message requiring your approval (8
>> lines) -------------------
>> >I'd say Kurt Vonnegut - not so much stylistically, because Vonnegut's
>style
>> >is much simpler, but in their approach to time and narration. The goal
of
>> >"Pnin" and "Slaughterhouse-Five", for instance, is virtually the same -
>to
>> >describe the narrator's experience by reference to a similar observed
>main
>> >character.
>> >
>> >Seth D. Michaels
>> >Brandeis University
>>
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