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NABOKOVIANS:
The new issue of SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL (Vol. 37, #3
Fall 1993) has two items of interests.
1. Galya Diment, "English as Sanctuary: Nabokov and Brodsky's
Autobiographical Writings" (pp. 346-361). The essay argues that VN and B.
chose to write about their parents in their second languages in order to
gain emotional and aesthetic distance.
2. Temira Pachmuss reviews Inna Broude's OT KHODASEVICHA DO NABOKOVA:
NOSTALGICHESKAJA TEMA V POEZII PERVOJ RUSSKOJ EMIGRACII, Tenafly, N.J.:
Hermitage Pub., 1990, 160 pp., $10. The review (pp. 387-88) describes
the book as an "aesthetics of nostalgia" lacking "all objective literary
categories". The reviewer attacks the book's asserted thesis that nostalgia
was the only theme of the emigre poets and goes on to discuss in some
detail the author's extremely circumscribed view of the literary
emigration. Professor Pachmuss, an authority on emigre literature, appends
a bibliography of sources overlooked by Dr. Broude.
The new issue of SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL (Vol. 37, #3
Fall 1993) has two items of interests.
1. Galya Diment, "English as Sanctuary: Nabokov and Brodsky's
Autobiographical Writings" (pp. 346-361). The essay argues that VN and B.
chose to write about their parents in their second languages in order to
gain emotional and aesthetic distance.
2. Temira Pachmuss reviews Inna Broude's OT KHODASEVICHA DO NABOKOVA:
NOSTALGICHESKAJA TEMA V POEZII PERVOJ RUSSKOJ EMIGRACII, Tenafly, N.J.:
Hermitage Pub., 1990, 160 pp., $10. The review (pp. 387-88) describes
the book as an "aesthetics of nostalgia" lacking "all objective literary
categories". The reviewer attacks the book's asserted thesis that nostalgia
was the only theme of the emigre poets and goes on to discuss in some
detail the author's extremely circumscribed view of the literary
emigration. Professor Pachmuss, an authority on emigre literature, appends
a bibliography of sources overlooked by Dr. Broude.