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[jbor]

on 18/7/03 12:36 AM, David Morris at fqmorris at yahoo.com wrote:

> http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no6/gessen.html
> 
> Like many newly minted Americans, Nabokov worked to reinvent himself upon new
> shores--but he did not fall upon us from the sky. What should be made clear
> about his Russian work is that his poetry was straightforwardly lyrical,
> emphatic, and peculiarly lacking in the sleights and feints we associate with
> Nabokov--it is not, in short, very interesting poetry.

His early short stories (translated) are very much of a different era and
style also, lacking in "the sleights and feints" etc.

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