While I wandered through my favorite book-stores in Brasília, focusing on
books that were abandoned on a counter, I came upon a severe hard-cover
edition, with a prim title: "Política."
I vaguely remembered a recent
reference to its author at the Nab-List and, well... I decided to buy it,
always bearing in mind the ever approaching presidential elections in
Brazil...
The mention to Adam Thirlwell was made on May 24 (a review of
Nabokov's V&V)*. Somehow I imagined him as another Edmund Wilson, with
a wise mane of white hair!
I'm now half-way through his marvellous book (what
a relief to get away from Ian McEwan's sexual fantasies!). While I began to
learn more about Thirlwell, thru google, I found an oldish, veryoff-hand
Nab-sighting.** ( is this an indication of VN's Camera Obscura"?).
Googling for "Thirlwell Nabokov" there were hundreds
more.***
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review of V&V by Thirlwell (84 lines)
From: Hafid Bouazza <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010
13:37:38 +0200
Re: review of V&V by Thirlwell (3201 lines)
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 20:27:25
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** Boyd Tonkin (August 14,2010) "
Yet the image of Thirlwell as a gilded gadfly never quite
fitted the bill. Miss Herbert abounds with hosannahs for mischief-makers who
bravely insisted on laughter in the dark. It speaks up for a
pantheon of exiles and dissenters, profound jokers who shake the chains of a
tyrannous history. The book's "immature" aesthetics resolve into an ethics
"which teaches respect for the minor, the overlooked, the unsure". These
underdogs laugh like hyenas.
The Escape will, again, fail to please the literary puritans,
but the novel - and its protagonist - has a more visibly beating heart....www.independent.co.uk > ... > Books > Feature
*** A sample:
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13 May 2010
... E-mail Print Share More by
Adam Thirlwell ... On May 28, 1940, Vladimir
Nabokov arrived in New York-the third major
stage of his exile from
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4 Nov 2007
... Adam Thirlwell clearly has a lot of charm. Literary
estates are not generally administered by pussycats, yet
Nabokov's heirs have let him
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Nabokov's Pushkin is an uncharacteristically
altruistic monument. (Also worth checking out Mason's post about The Delighted
States.) tags:
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In my previous post, I discuss
Adam Thirlwell's new book,
The Delighted States: A book of
... Nabokov's French in "Mademoiselle O" is an
unusual French,
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27 May 2008
... When he quotes
Nabokov on the crucial topic of exile-"Je
suis dépaysé
... I read it eagerly, with admiration
for
Adam Thirlwell's daring;
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Adam Thirlwell suggests mistranslation is the key to
the novel's glories.
... that presents the original text and
Thirlwell's translation of
Nabokov's story
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Miss Herbert,
Adam Thirlwell tells us, is an attempt at
Nabokov's ideal novel - 'which is not really a
novel'. It is a book about novelists
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When you turn the book over you see a
different cover:
Nabokov's short story "
Mademoiselle O,"
rendered into English by one Adam Thirlwell. ...
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20 Jun 2008
... Everything Thirlwell says sounds
great as it passes between one's ears.
...Filed in
Adam Thirlwell, Book
reviews, Vladimir
Nabokov,
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18 Jun 2008 ... Adam Thirlwell's book shoves its delirious way around
and through ...Vladimir Nabokov scribbling and irritably sunning in a
deck chair, ...
www.nytimes.com/2008/06/.../18eder.html?