Nabokovia In reply to 0000300476D2

[Alan Westrope]

On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, <PNOTESBD at cnsvax.uwec.edu> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.  Someone else who didn't also post to the list reminded
> me of the annecdote of Nabokov's wife, and for all I know it's true,  But I'd
> like one more piece of corroboration before I go out on a limb and phrase the
> connection as Susan Elizabeth Sweeney did in her abstract.

Siegel's Playboy article mentions a remark by Pynchon to the effect
that Nabokov's Russian accent was so thick that it was almost impossible
to understand him.  Ms. Nabokov's recollection may be found in Alfred
Appel's "An Interview with Vladimir Nabokov," Wisconsin Studies in
Contemporary Literature, Spring 1967.

Kaotic Kodetta: Barth's new book should be released in August by Little,
Brown and Company for $27.95 US.


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