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Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: RE: mentioned in Nabokov's eccentric translation of
''Eugene Onegin,'' ...
And
for those fans of the grotesque, I suggest they purchase Binyin's biography from
Amazon.Com. That way, they can consider Amazon's suggestion
that they also purchase William Taubman's new biography of
Krushchev to complement the life of Pushkin! One needn't be a
Nabokovian to find such a juxtaposition unbelievably bizarre. What's next:
a new biography of Melville paired with Anthony Summers recent life of
Nixon? Good Lord.
EDNOTE. This new biography of Pushkin is of
interest to Nabokov readers. Nabokov was born in 1899 exactly a hundred years
before Russian's most famous poet and writer and identified closely with him.
Anyone who reads Nabokov without knowing something of his glamorous forerunner
is missing a vital dimension of the Russo-American writer.
Messenger.