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Subject: FVN sighting: Villa-Matas "El Viaje Vertical"
Nabokov Sighting: " El Viaje Vertical " ( Vertical
trip ) by Enrique Villa-Matas, 2001, in which the author makes a reference to Pnin while criticizing the academic world and
imitations.
quote:
"Everything was copied from Manfredi"...
" If, in the long run of his life Mayol had given himself the
trouble to read novels heīd have been able to tell his companion that he
had no right to criticize copied things because he, with his glasses
framed in acrilic and his simian upper lip was nothing else but a pathetic
imitation of Professor Pnin, an invention of Nabokovīs" .
( I translated freely from another translation of the original
in Spanish - which I have not read. There seems to be no English
translation of this particular novel of
Villa-Matasīs )