On Nabokov's Talking

[Barry Westburg]

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> Remarkable how quickly Pale Fire itself springs to mind upon 
> reading this message.
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> :Teen Age Riot wrote:
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> :> Speaking of Nabokov, can anyone recommend a good biography of the man?
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> :The reigning standard biography is Brian Boyd's massive _Vladimir Nabokov_ (London 
> :Chatto & Windus, 1992) in two vols. Vol 2 The American Years is particularly 
> :detailed on VN's time at Cornell. (FWIW. reading Boyd--whom I later came to 
> :interview in Australia-- I discovered that when I myself arrived at Cornell 
> :Nabokov had departed a month or so earlier. But I did come to know several of 
> :Nabokov's academic friends, including Prof Robbie McCloud,who rented his house to 
> :VN, a place where I happened to live for a short time as well, and where VN 
> :composed much of Lolita.)

Aww shucks! I musta crossed signals, musta thought I was writing to  
the _Nabokov_ list or something!  Anyway, nice squib.

BW
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