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From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
To: "'Vladimir Nabokov Forum'" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 4:30 AM
Anita Brookner, interviewed in The New Zealand Listener (September 28,
2002,
p. 57), is reported thus:
"This disciple of Marcel Proust and Henry James re-reads the classics, but
scorns the 'negligible' fiction of today. Nabokov . . . is the last great
novelist for her."
The ellipsis reads in the original "-dandy, émigré, melancholy wit-": a
would-be appositional elucidation by the interviewer, whose literary
sensitivity evidently lags a long way behind Brookner's.
From: "Brian Boyd (FOA ENG)" <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
To: "'Vladimir Nabokov Forum'" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 4:30 AM
Anita Brookner, interviewed in The New Zealand Listener (September 28,
2002,
p. 57), is reported thus:
"This disciple of Marcel Proust and Henry James re-reads the classics, but
scorns the 'negligible' fiction of today. Nabokov . . . is the last great
novelist for her."
The ellipsis reads in the original "-dandy, émigré, melancholy wit-": a
would-be appositional elucidation by the interviewer, whose literary
sensitivity evidently lags a long way behind Brookner's.