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Jansy Mello: PS: I didn’t add Ada’s initial reference to similarities and differences because VN’s intention was to criticize translators. On second thoughts, I added it because a careful comparison between the original words and the translators’ “transfigurations” satirized by Nabokov also serve to suggest false similarities produced by hasty and “more or less” vague generalizations:
‘All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike,’ says a great Russian writer in the beginning of a famous novel (Anna Arkadievitch Karenina, transfigured into English by R.G. Stonelower, Mount Tabor Ltd., 1880). ADA, I, ch. 1 ("All happy families are like one another, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way") SO 123: "The opening sentences of Ada inaugurate a series of blasts directed throughout the book at translators of unprotected masterpieces who betray their authors by 'transfigurations' based on ignorance and self-assertiveness.” Cf. B.Boyd Ada Online 3.01-08: "All happy families . . . 1858):
Jansy Mello: There’s a Nabokovian quality about certain coincidences (a theme that has been explored in the latest issue of “The Nabokovian”) that makes me feel, for a little while, as if he’s managed to go on playing games with his readers (with us!), just like it happens in “The Vane Sisters”. …
Sergey Sakun: Here is another example of the “similarities and differences”;
and “false similarities produced by hasty and “more or less” vague generalizations”;
and, at last, “certain coincidences”.
/from my LJ (24.04.15)/
In the mirror of Nabokov’s (and Tolstoy’s) “opening sentence” we can also to discern
JAMES BOSWELL,
The Life of Samuel Johnson (vol. 2)
«I mentioned Hume's notion[22], that all who are happy are equally happy; a little miss with a new gown at a dancing school ball, a general at the head of a victorious army, and an orator, after having made an eloquent speech in a great assembly.
JOHNSON. 'Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.' I remember this very question very happily illustrated in opposition to Hume, by the Reverend Mr. Robert Brown[23], at Utrecht. 'A small drinking-glass and a large one, (said he,) may be equally full; but the large one holds more than the small.'»
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Best regards,
Sergey Sakun mailto:svs79@mail.ru
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