Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0018320, Wed, 13 May 2009 01:01:55 +0400

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Re: THOUGHTS: Nabokov's Van Veen as a distant relative of
Pushkin's Onegin and Lermontov's Pechorin
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You are wrong: Luzhin in Dostoevsky comes from luzha, "puddle."

Btw., Volgin is also the hero in Chernyshevsky's Prologue (see Nabokov's The Gift).

Also, I forgot to mention that d'Onsky, the name of a character in ADA, Demon Veen's rival, comes from Don, the river flowing from the Tula province in central Russia to the sea of Azov. Cf. Onegin's donskoy zherebets, a Don stallion, in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (Chapter Two, V, 4).

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