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While neither of the http's given below seems to yield anything, a quick trip to "Anatoly Livry" on Google revealed, inter alia, that Livry was given a teaching post at the Sorbonne but kicked out a month later after the publication in Paris of the "scandalous" story "Vyzdoravlivaiushchiy" (lit. "The Convalescent"). It was supposed to appear in 2003 in a Russian anthology and in the review "Neva", No.3, 2003. His monograph "Nabokov the Nietzchean" (or "The Nietzchean Nabokov," depending on the intended nuance) "will in the near future be published in St.Petersburg by Aleteia and in Lausanne by l'Âge d'homme." I have read nothing of his, but he appears to be one of the not-so-new-breed of hooligan writers, like Shishkin, Pelevin, etc. whose intent is épater les bourgeois.

In the forties, while my mother and I were visiting a relative in New York and my father was busy with students in Wellesley and butterflies in Cambridge, he collapsed with acute food poisoning after a meal at a Cambridge restaurant called the Wursthaus. He was hospitalized, and then shown a routine chest Xray that revealed a dark mass in one lung He was told it was cancer. He stopped smoking cold turkey, started eating molasses candy as a surrogate, and gained some 30 pounds. It turned out later that the Xray had not been his at all.

From: D. Barton Johnson [mailto:chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 9:43 PM
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Subject: News from Paris Sorbonne. Scandale in russian literature in Europe ! (fwd)

EDNOTE. Mister Livry, who sends NABOKV-L the intriguing items below, says he is the author of a volume Nabokov the Nietzschean_. Does anyone know anything about this?

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Date: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:42 AM +0100

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Subject: News from Paris Sorbonne. Scandale in russian literature in Europe

> http://blackquadrat.com/magazine/id113.html

> http://www.kreschatik.net/issues/21/kontext/smirnitski.htm

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