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Platon Nabokov (fwd)
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EDITORIAL NOTE: For the non-Slavists among you, I might mention (in
conjunction with Galya's Diment's note below) that the name PLATON
(Plato) Nabokov is an exquisite double oxymoron: Nabokov bouncing
between Plato (whom he despised) and the ultra-humble peasant Platon
Karataev of War & Peace fame. DBJ
From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
FYI. The latest issue of the LA emigre newspaper PANORAMA (#726, March
8-14, 1995) has an interview with Platon Nabokov who is apparently
Nabokov's distant, or not so distant, cousin. His father, Joseph Nabokov,
was V.D. Nabokov's twice-removed nephew ("dvoiurodnyi plemiannik" -- once
removed? I am not great with relations either in English or in Russian).
He is a poet who spent several years in a labor camp where he was reportedly
interrogated about, among other things, his link to V. Nabokov's
family. He calls V. Nabokov "istinnyi realist" ("a true realist"), for
which I am not sure his relative would have ever forgiven him, and also
"vydaiushchiisia stilist" ("an outstanding stylist"), which I suspect the
other Nabokov would have liked. There is a picture of Platon Nabokov too,
and he DOES look like Vladimir there. The title of the article is
interesting -- "I v nyneshnei Rossii est' svoi Nabokov" ("Present Russia,
too, has its own Nabokov").
Galya Diment
conjunction with Galya's Diment's note below) that the name PLATON
(Plato) Nabokov is an exquisite double oxymoron: Nabokov bouncing
between Plato (whom he despised) and the ultra-humble peasant Platon
Karataev of War & Peace fame. DBJ
From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
FYI. The latest issue of the LA emigre newspaper PANORAMA (#726, March
8-14, 1995) has an interview with Platon Nabokov who is apparently
Nabokov's distant, or not so distant, cousin. His father, Joseph Nabokov,
was V.D. Nabokov's twice-removed nephew ("dvoiurodnyi plemiannik" -- once
removed? I am not great with relations either in English or in Russian).
He is a poet who spent several years in a labor camp where he was reportedly
interrogated about, among other things, his link to V. Nabokov's
family. He calls V. Nabokov "istinnyi realist" ("a true realist"), for
which I am not sure his relative would have ever forgiven him, and also
"vydaiushchiisia stilist" ("an outstanding stylist"), which I suspect the
other Nabokov would have liked. There is a picture of Platon Nabokov too,
and he DOES look like Vladimir there. The title of the article is
interesting -- "I v nyneshnei Rossii est' svoi Nabokov" ("Present Russia,
too, has its own Nabokov").
Galya Diment