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Died. Vladimir Nabokov, 78, Russian-born novelist (Lolita, Ada, Pale Fire) who was a master of style and elegant artifice; after a long illness; in Montreux, Switzerland (see BOOKS...
Cecil Taylor's Silent Tongues stands out from the previous three records both because of its format (solo piano) and its recording date (it was recorded at last year's Montreux festival). The album provides a fair sample of what '60s avant-garde music is doing in the '70s as well as how a difference in format necessitates a difference in approach...
Nabokov is a cultivator of vocabulary. And it will not seem too paradoxical--not, at least, to a reader of Nabokov--to say that a non-bogus, paraphrased, uncolorfully detailed Nabokov told me last summer on his Montreux veranda that he had always emphasized his status as an American writer because America has the richest vocabulary in history, graced with an unparalleled number of technical terms and vigorous, constantly changing slang. Even its cliches are at the highest level. That is why, in Nabokov's opinion, the best writing in progress today is being done by Americans...
...novels have been nominated for National Book Awards, only to be ultimately passed over. Now the self-described "pleasant outsider" has landed one of the country's most distinguished prizes: the National Medal for Literature, awarded for a living American writer's total literary contribution. At his Montreux, Switzerland, home, a modest Nabokov could only say: "I think it was a very good idea to give the prize...
...Russian mostly during the '20s and '30s, this is the last to be published in English. One regrets at once that there will not be more. Though a brand-new novel is promised for late this year, it will not be prefaced by the thunderbolt from Montreux, which has become customary in these translations, in which the author instructs his Johnny-come-lately audience in his older works...