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From: Charles Nicol <ejnicol@root.indstate.edu>
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>--Writers admired by Nabokov:
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>I believe that it was in the Saturday Review article mentioned at
>the beginning of the "disciple" discussion that Nabokov mentioned his
>admiration for Delmore Schwartz's powerful 1937 story, "In Dreams Begin
>Responsibilities." Whether it was a model for VN's own "Assistant
>Producer" is discussed in the first paragraph and first note to my
>article on that story in A SMALL ALPINE FORM; STUDIES IN NABOKOV'S
>SHORT FICTION, edited by G. Barabtarlo and myself.
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>--And Nabokov disciples:
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>Another part-time disciple is Don DeLillo, whose
>WHITE NOISE has an assassination scene obviously modeled after the
>Humbert-Quilty shooting (and considering that the intended victim has
>been known under the pseudonym of "Mr. Gray," there seems to be a
>PALE FIRE reference as well).
From: Charles Nicol <ejnicol@root.indstate.edu>
>----------------- Message requiring your approval (17
lines) ------------------
>--Writers admired by Nabokov:
>
>I believe that it was in the Saturday Review article mentioned at
>the beginning of the "disciple" discussion that Nabokov mentioned his
>admiration for Delmore Schwartz's powerful 1937 story, "In Dreams Begin
>Responsibilities." Whether it was a model for VN's own "Assistant
>Producer" is discussed in the first paragraph and first note to my
>article on that story in A SMALL ALPINE FORM; STUDIES IN NABOKOV'S
>SHORT FICTION, edited by G. Barabtarlo and myself.
>
>--And Nabokov disciples:
>
>Another part-time disciple is Don DeLillo, whose
>WHITE NOISE has an assassination scene obviously modeled after the
>Humbert-Quilty shooting (and considering that the intended victim has
>been known under the pseudonym of "Mr. Gray," there seems to be a
>PALE FIRE reference as well).