On Mar 9, 2009, at 6:18 AM, Nabokv-L Matt Roth wrote: Shade's muse is a versipel (werewolf) and Kinbote's middle name is Vseslav (which can only be a reference to the legendary werewolf of that name, as explained in "The Vseslav Epos," by Jakobson and Szeftel).
Dear Matt,
This is the first I hear of this discovery and it's wonderful! Szeftel, as you may know, has been identified as the model for Professor Pnin (Galya Diment, Pniniad, Nabokov and Marc Szeftel).
Carolyn
p.s. I feel my slavic education must have been sadly lacking - - I don't recall ever hearing about the Vseslav Epos before.