Brian Boyd to Barrie Akin: "Yes, great finds and prompts, Barrie, including Hernani and
rippleson stillicides.Perhaps we should be wary, though, of treating everything as
entirely consistent at every
level..."
Jansy Mello: Yesterday
I bought SERROTE (n.11), a Brazilian Art magazine.
I thought I had a great sighting to report for Vladimir Nabokov's
name, and Brian Boyd's, were prominently displayed in its
cover.
However, there were no two
isolated articles inside, but the translation of the lecture Brian Boyd
delivered in Rio de Janeiro in September 2009, with the title "Nabokov and
Machado," already published, in English, in Brian Boyd's recent "Stalking
Nabokov."
The Brazilian edition was
beautifully illustrated by several pages of Nabokov's drawings of butterflies,
text and images extending from pg 36 to page 57.
Machado refers to Brazilian writer
Machado de Assis and B.Boyd demonstrated the affinities between the two
writers, while he confessed that he's also like to pair Nabokov and Darwin,
Nabokov and William James, or Nabokov and T.S.Eliot (news about BB's lectures in
Brazil are available in the List.)