EDNOTE. Maurice Couturier is the leading Nabokov specialist in France and the editor of the in-progress Pleiade.

In re Mr. Karpukhin's request, perhaps some kindly soul can xerox and send him the French texts. Pease advise him and me, if you can do this.

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From: Maurice Couturier

To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum

Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 3:00 AM

Subject: Re: Fw: VN's french works in the original: "Medmoiselle 'O'" and "POuchkine, ou le vrai..

Dear Don,

Both items Mr Karpukhin mentions in his mail are currently available in print in France: "Mademoiselle O" in the French edition of Nabokov's Dozen (I translated the other stories but used, of course, Nabokov's original text for that particular story); and "Pouchkine, ou le vrai et le vraisemblable" in the dossier I edited in the N° 551 (September 1999) issue of La Nouvelle Revue Française. Neither text is available online.

Happy new year to you.

Best,

Maurice

D. Barton Johnson wrote:

EDNOTE. I see, to my surprise, that the French items below are not in the
Symposium edition. Can anyone help Mr. Karpukhin in far-off Siberia?
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From: "Sergey Karpukhin" <shrewd@irk.ru>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
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> Dear all,
>
> I've been searching for "Mademoiselle O" and "Pouchkine, ou le vrai et le
> vraisemblable" in French online, but could not find it. Since the Internet
> is the most convenient (actually, in some cases the only) way of getting
> some of VN's works here in Siberia, any help will be appreciated, if
> naturally there is no breach of copyright.
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Best regards,
> Sergey Karpukhin,
> Irkutsk, Russia
>
>