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RE : Nabokoviana (fwd)
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From: joseph piercy <j9250308@wlv.ac.uk>
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The recent posting concerning an article on the Buckley
clan and the teaching of memoir writing brought to mind a comment I
received after giving a paper last year titled "Nabokov And The Craft of
Writing" ( which also drew extensively on "Speak, Memory"). During the
post-presentation discussion I received a question from two women who were
visiting the U.K from Moscow. As my command of Russian is very sparse I
had to rely upon a colleague to interpret for me. From what I can
remember the point was as follows : "Reading Nabokov is like swimming in
honey- do you agree ?". I think that the two women were making the same
point as the student who who made the "wading through wet sand" comment-
although somehow "swimming in honey" sounds more appropriate.
Joseph Piercy/ University Of Wolverhampton /U.K
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The recent posting concerning an article on the Buckley
clan and the teaching of memoir writing brought to mind a comment I
received after giving a paper last year titled "Nabokov And The Craft of
Writing" ( which also drew extensively on "Speak, Memory"). During the
post-presentation discussion I received a question from two women who were
visiting the U.K from Moscow. As my command of Russian is very sparse I
had to rely upon a colleague to interpret for me. From what I can
remember the point was as follows : "Reading Nabokov is like swimming in
honey- do you agree ?". I think that the two women were making the same
point as the student who who made the "wading through wet sand" comment-
although somehow "swimming in honey" sounds more appropriate.
Joseph Piercy/ University Of Wolverhampton /U.K