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Re: Best VN story? (fwd)
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>From Juan Martinez (jmm80625@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu)
How about "Wingstroke"? I realize that it's an early story and that it
could be considered "crude," (so referred to by, I think, one of the NY
Times reviewers when the collected stories came out) but it's the one I
most enjoy re-reading -- not only are there some familiar themes (such as
the death-fascinated friend that later appears in _Speak, Memory_), but it
is also a very odd bird (most particularly that angel -- hints of magic
realism).
Cheers!
-- http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~jmm80625
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
> From: "Welch, Rodney" <RWelch@SCES.ORG>
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> What is the consensus of opinion here regarding Nabokov's best
> story?
> "Aleppo" ranks rather low on my own list, and I suspect Updike chose
> it because it's a less obvious choice than "Signs and Symbols" (VN's very
> best, to my mind) or such gems as "The Vane Sisters," "Cloud, Castle, Lake,"
> "Perfection," "Spring in Fialta" or "First Love" ("that darling of
> anthologists," as VN himself once put it.)
> I'd be interested to know what single story other Nabokovians would
> select.
>
> Rodney Welch
> Columbia, SC
>
>
> ---Original Message-----
> From: Donald Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 1999 1:42 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject: VN Bibliography (fwd)
>
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> From: Earl Sampson <esampson@cu.campuscwix.net>
>
> FYI: VN is represented by "That in Aleppo Once..." in THE BEST AMERICAN
> SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY (Houghton Mifflin, eds. John Updike and
> Katrina Kenison).
>