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Does there exist, and can one look at, a ms. of Dmitri's unpublished novel?
Robert Roper
On Feb 21, 2013, at 4:52 AM, A. Bouazza wrote:
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> Stan K-B: We all miss Dmitri Nabokov, but of his many, many admired achievements, command of the profound mathematics/physics of symmetry/antisymmetry is not apparent in any publications I’ve encountered. Refs requested.
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> In pre-SKB times, when Galya Diment was the List’s editor, she posted a NY Times article celebrating VN’s centennial on April 21, 1999, from which I remembered the following passage:
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> “Dmitri Nabokov, once a fast-living opera singer and race-car driver, now chastened by a near-death experience after a fiery crash and the death of his
> mother in 1991, has decided to devote himself to literature. He is revising his own novel about parallel lives, which has a love scene told in mathematical
> formulas.”
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> https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind9904&L=NABOKV-L&E=0&P=159623&B=--&T=TEXT%2FPLAIN;%20charset=US-ASCII&header=1
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> A. Bouazza
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> Google Search the archive Contact the Editors Visit "Nabokov Online Journal" Visit Zembla View Nabokv-L Policies Manage subscription options Visit AdaOnline View NSJ Ada Annotations Temporary L-Soft Search the archive
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Robert Roper
On Feb 21, 2013, at 4:52 AM, A. Bouazza wrote:
>
> Stan K-B: We all miss Dmitri Nabokov, but of his many, many admired achievements, command of the profound mathematics/physics of symmetry/antisymmetry is not apparent in any publications I’ve encountered. Refs requested.
>
> In pre-SKB times, when Galya Diment was the List’s editor, she posted a NY Times article celebrating VN’s centennial on April 21, 1999, from which I remembered the following passage:
>
> “Dmitri Nabokov, once a fast-living opera singer and race-car driver, now chastened by a near-death experience after a fiery crash and the death of his
> mother in 1991, has decided to devote himself to literature. He is revising his own novel about parallel lives, which has a love scene told in mathematical
> formulas.”
>
> https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind9904&L=NABOKV-L&E=0&P=159623&B=--&T=TEXT%2FPLAIN;%20charset=US-ASCII&header=1
>
> A. Bouazza
>
>
> Google Search the archive Contact the Editors Visit "Nabokov Online Journal" Visit Zembla View Nabokv-L Policies Manage subscription options Visit AdaOnline View NSJ Ada Annotations Temporary L-Soft Search the archive
> All private editorial communications are read by both co-editors.
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
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