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EDNOTE. Although it does not answer the question, I note VN wrote a rather silly feuilleton called "Chto vsyakii dolzhen znat'" (What everyone should know) in 1931. In it VN pitches Freudianism as an up-to-date patent nostrum guaranteed to cure all ills. Aleksandr DOLININ reprints it in his 1989 collection VLADIMIR NABOKOv....
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From: Leland de la Durantaye
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 9:56 AM
Subject: Freud
Besides Field's noting that Nabokov read Freud in English translation (a remark likely based on a letter in the Berg Collection from Vera Nabokov to Field stating such) and Nabokov's boutade in the Apostrophes interview that to appreciate Freud's quality as a comic writer he must be read in the original, does anyone know more about what language Nabokov read Freud in, and when?
----- Original Message -----
From: Leland de la Durantaye
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 9:56 AM
Subject: Freud
Besides Field's noting that Nabokov read Freud in English translation (a remark likely based on a letter in the Berg Collection from Vera Nabokov to Field stating such) and Nabokov's boutade in the Apostrophes interview that to appreciate Freud's quality as a comic writer he must be read in the original, does anyone know more about what language Nabokov read Freud in, and when?