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EDITOR's NOTE. And let us not forget VN and _The CONfessions of Victor X_,
from an anonynous Russian gentleman to Havelock Ellis, translated into
English by Donald Rayfield, Grove Press, 1985Edmund Wilson called the
work to VN attention in the forties..
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From: Alphonse Vinh <AVinh@npr.org>
VV had a thorough aversion to having perfect strangers at the bedside of his
mind. :-)
Alphonse Vinh
p.s. Interesting to point out that VV's father, VD Nabokov, had a strong
interest in abnormal psychology and the criminal mind, which he studied as a
scholar of jurisprudence. VV read widely in his father's psychological
collection as the parade of madmen and eccentrics in Nabokov's writings will
attest to this fact. My favourite minor Nabokovian madman is the architect
who believed himself to be a cathedral. Anyone care to diagnose this
particular condition?
-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 4:26 PM
To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
Subject: NEW YORKER VN Dream
I am curious that the New Yorker dream has stimulated no analytical
hypotheses... Obviously VN had an interest in dreams sufficient to capture
and collect them himself. Dream analyses need not be Freudian, although the
historical first of the analysts also acquired unsavory connections. Come
on,
give it a try!
Sandy Drescher drescher@bcn.net
from an anonynous Russian gentleman to Havelock Ellis, translated into
English by Donald Rayfield, Grove Press, 1985Edmund Wilson called the
work to VN attention in the forties..
--------------------------------x
From: Alphonse Vinh <AVinh@npr.org>
VV had a thorough aversion to having perfect strangers at the bedside of his
mind. :-)
Alphonse Vinh
p.s. Interesting to point out that VV's father, VD Nabokov, had a strong
interest in abnormal psychology and the criminal mind, which he studied as a
scholar of jurisprudence. VV read widely in his father's psychological
collection as the parade of madmen and eccentrics in Nabokov's writings will
attest to this fact. My favourite minor Nabokovian madman is the architect
who believed himself to be a cathedral. Anyone care to diagnose this
particular condition?
-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 4:26 PM
To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
Subject: NEW YORKER VN Dream
I am curious that the New Yorker dream has stimulated no analytical
hypotheses... Obviously VN had an interest in dreams sufficient to capture
and collect them himself. Dream analyses need not be Freudian, although the
historical first of the analysts also acquired unsavory connections. Come
on,
give it a try!
Sandy Drescher drescher@bcn.net