Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0005398, Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:07:33 -0700

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> Within the last few weeks several, really exciting things happened to
Polish
> admirers of Nabokov.
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> In the recent 70 th volume of Polish quarterly "Cahiers Literaire"
("Zeszyty
> Literackie") might be found very interesting essay "Translating Nabokov"
written
> by Michael Scammell. From the "today" perspective Scammell describes (with
huge
> portion of self-criticism) his very adventurous affair with both
Nabokovs -
> Vladimir and Vera.
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> It's worth to mention, that from main Nabokov's works only "Ada" had not
been
> published in Polish.
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> His first volume of "Lectures on Literature" had been also already
translated
> and published. Two weeks ago the most influential Polish weekly magazine
> "Polityka" gave the volume very warm (and quite extensive) review.
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> Piotr Jaworski
> Warsaw
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