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Re: Martin Amis: VN and homosexuality (fwd)
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Donald Barton Johnson wrote:
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> EDITOR's NOTE. I suspect that Amis' seeming quote noted below by Corinne
> Laura Scheiner <clschein@midway.uchicago.edu> is just a very loose
> paraphrase of VN's remark to Edmund Wilson about his indifference to women
> writers. Amis is indeed an admirer of VN who pops up frequently in his own
> work.
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I think Amis' quote comes from Selected Letters (Vintage, p.41):
"I need a man who knows English better than Russian - and a man, not a
woman. I am frankly homosexual on the subject of translators."
VN was looking for somebody to make the first draft of "The Gift"
in English. He was not speaking of writers, though.
--
Peter A. Kartsev
Moscow, Russia
Phone: (095) 471-5457
E-mail: petr@glas.apc.org
En cada instante puede revelarte su amor Helena de Troya. -- JLB
>
> EDITOR's NOTE. I suspect that Amis' seeming quote noted below by Corinne
> Laura Scheiner <clschein@midway.uchicago.edu> is just a very loose
> paraphrase of VN's remark to Edmund Wilson about his indifference to women
> writers. Amis is indeed an admirer of VN who pops up frequently in his own
> work.
> -------------------------------------------
I think Amis' quote comes from Selected Letters (Vintage, p.41):
"I need a man who knows English better than Russian - and a man, not a
woman. I am frankly homosexual on the subject of translators."
VN was looking for somebody to make the first draft of "The Gift"
in English. He was not speaking of writers, though.
--
Peter A. Kartsev
Moscow, Russia
Phone: (095) 471-5457
E-mail: petr@glas.apc.org
En cada instante puede revelarte su amor Helena de Troya. -- JLB