Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0002746, Mon, 26 Jan 1998 12:11:12 -0800

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Re: LD in France /Nonnenmacher (fwd)
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From: Mary Bellino <iambe@javanet.com>

"Nonnenmacher" is sometimes thought to refer to the "nonnons" of
Invitation to a Beheading. See for example Leona Toker's Nabokov: The
Mystery of Literary Structures, pp. 120-21. If I am not mistaken the
detail of Nonnenmacher and his ten-volume History of Art was added only
in Nabokov's revised 1938 translation, which puts it quite close in time
to the composition of ITAB.