To whom it may concern:

 

II vehemently protest the title of this (otherwise interesting) Alexander Nemser* review.

 

Whatever one’s literary persuasion is, Nemser has no right to compare Nabokov to (historical) Count Dracula even in jest.  

 

If this is sense of Mr Nemser’s humor, I suggest a title for a Pasternak review:  “Boris Good-Enough”.

 

Not funny, not appreciated, and probably an apology is due for a very bad taste.

 

 

Victor Fet,
Marshall University

West Virginia

 

 

 

 

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Alexander Nemser grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A Literature major at Yale and Phi Beta Kappa member, he studies English and Russian poetry. His poems have appeared in the New York Times and are forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly and the film The Good Shepherd, directed by Robert DeNiro. He has won the Meeker, Veech, and Curtis Prizes in English from Yale and First Prize in the 2004 Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest, and read in the 2005 Connecticut Student Poetry Circuit. He wrote his thesis on the poets Robert Lowell and Boris Pasternak. He plans to pursue an MPhil in European Literature at Oxford.

 

From :  http://www.marshallscholarship.org/scholars/profiles/2006scholars/n-r

 

 

 

 

 

 

-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	The New Republic Story
Date:	Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:42:07 -0500
From:	paroth@skidmore.edu
To:	Nabokv-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU

"Vlad the Impaler"

http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=34bd480e-1fab-48ed-9428-2097aae8c8aa&k=15950

Much to, shall we say, chew on here, including the title!

 

I choked on it - VF