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The original reads: "Mais je m’imaginais qu’il paraîtrait dans une
édition
limitée, restreinte, réservée à quelques lettrés." I thought he had
said the
contrary: "But I didn’t expect it to come out in a limited, restricted
edition,
reserved for a few men of letters." What I meant in my commentary,
Jansy, was
that if I mistranslated the sentence, it was probably because I thought
Nabokov
was confident the book would appeal to a large public; did he expect
the
American publishers to which he sent the manuscript before 1955 to
publish "une
édition limitée, restreinte, réservés à quelque lettrés"?
Perhaps I shouldn't try too hard to justify my mistranlation. I am an
arch
blunderer.
Maurice Couturier