NPPF - preliminary onegin

[cfalbert]

Arendt refers to four  previous translations in English.


love,
cfa
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> From: "Malignd" <malignd at yahoo.com>
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> Subject: re: NPPF - preliminary
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> > <<But at the same time there is the _Eugene Onegin_
> > translation/annotation and the obvious fact that this
> > shaped the structure, themes and method of _Pale
> > Fire_.>>
> >
> > The comparison to Eugene Onegin and the ensuing
> > squabble with Edmund Wilson are enticing comparisons,
> > but that Eugene Onegin was published after Pale Fire.
> > Which isn't to say that work on one didn't overlap
> > with work on the other, but the chronology is
> > questionable.  There's undoubtedly someone who can
> > speak to this, but publication dates for PF and EO are
> > 1962 and 1964, respectively, so its difficult to speak
> > of EO shaping PF -- without more information, anyway.
> 
> 
> The Walter Arendt translation I have was copyrighted in 1963, and Arendt
> refers to Nabokov's comments on OE in his introduction......
> 
> what do you make of "torquated"?
> 
> I think you will be amused by what I found....
> 
> love,
> cfa
> 
> 
> > <<That is a *very* literal reading and it depends on
> > who you're trusting at this point. One thing I like
> > about _Pale Fire_ is that I am never exactly sure what
> > happens at the end, who kills, and why. By the end I
> > don't trust any of them, including the apparently
> > reliable narrator who attempts to correct Kinbote's
> > errors throughout. And so I can't (and deliberately
> > don't want) to trust this reading either. (Though I
> > accept it is the one that makes the most *sense,*
> > whatever that means in this novel.)>>
> >
> > We'll have ample opportunity to go into this when the
> > time comes.  But I don't think one needs stick to a
> > "very literal reading" to be persuaded of the flesh
> > and blood reality of Jack Grey.
> >
> >
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