If Andrew Field’s files are at the Berg perhaps his original transcription of the tapes might be there, too. It makes sense to me to suppose A.Field had the tapes transcribed at that time before he set to work on them. Lots of off the cuff material just lying in wait?
Let’s hope so.
De: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] Em nome de Brian Boyd
Enviada em: sábado, 28 de fevereiro de 2015 19:32
Para: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Assunto: Re: [NABOKV-L] Andrew Field's Archive
Option c would have been my first guess, merely because I hadn't had occasion to consult Field for about a quarter-century and because Nabokov knew that a biography could be an important part of his after-image and he didn’t want his casual (and therefore to his taste eminently revisable) reminiscences to be immortalised there. But I had forgotten Field, Life in Art, p. 11, where Field writes “On occasion I used a recording machine, most often not.” VN’s own response at this point in Field’s typescript was to change to: “On occasion—three or four times, perhaps.”
As Germany’s Mr Nabokovian, Dieter E. Zimmer, often warned readers in Die Zeit, electronic media are far from durable. Whether 45-year-old tapes recorded before good noise-reduction mechanisms had been commericalized would now yield transcribable dialogue I don’t know. I recall Field suffering flood damage to his archive at some point.
Brian Boyd
On 1/03/2015, at 8:37 am, frances assa <franassa@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote: