Pynchon/Nabokov

[Andrew Dinn]

Teen Age Riot writes:

> Funny, as I recieved this message I was reading _Pnin_, my first exposure to
> Nabokov.  I'm not quite finished, but a fun book so far.  The most obvious
> connection I think would be both authors' insightful use of scientific
> metaphors.  Nabokov was some sort of trained scientist as well, wasn't he?
> Entomologist, or something?

No, Sirin, like Pynchon, was a scientific autodidact. He specialised
in lepidoptera and eventually took up an academic position in the
subject. But he did have a life-long subscription to Russkiya
Scienzkya.


Andrew Dinn
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