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From: Galya Diment <galya@u.washington.edu>
In the New York Times Magazine's article on a possible replacement for
antibiotics which has been developed in a Tbilisi Institute established
by Stalin for his admirer, a French scientist, one of the current
Georgian scientists working on the bacteria-eating organisms is described
as a "Nabokovian" presence. There is really no further explanation which
is, no doubt, a testimony to the assumption that people will know exactly
what's meant. Just like "Kafkaesque" would be immediately understood, for
example. I found it quite curious because even I was not quite sure what
the author of the article really wanted to say by that!
Galya
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^ Galya Diment ^
^ Professor and Graduate Advisor ^
^ Slavic Languages and Literatures ^
^ University of Washington ^
^ Box 353580 ^
^ Seattle, WA 98195-3580 ^
^ Ph. 206-543-7344/206-543-6848 ^
^ Fax: 206-543-6009/206-522-1959 ^
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In the New York Times Magazine's article on a possible replacement for
antibiotics which has been developed in a Tbilisi Institute established
by Stalin for his admirer, a French scientist, one of the current
Georgian scientists working on the bacteria-eating organisms is described
as a "Nabokovian" presence. There is really no further explanation which
is, no doubt, a testimony to the assumption that people will know exactly
what's meant. Just like "Kafkaesque" would be immediately understood, for
example. I found it quite curious because even I was not quite sure what
the author of the article really wanted to say by that!
Galya
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^ Galya Diment ^
^ Professor and Graduate Advisor ^
^ Slavic Languages and Literatures ^
^ University of Washington ^
^ Box 353580 ^
^ Seattle, WA 98195-3580 ^
^ Ph. 206-543-7344/206-543-6848 ^
^ Fax: 206-543-6009/206-522-1959 ^
^ ^
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