Word: nabokovs
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Paul Schmidt, who also plays the leading role, has produced a new translation of the play called by Vladimir Nabokov the greatest ever written in Russia. Schmidt's version happily avoids the ponderousness of other efforts, and is marked by smoothness and consistency. However, it contains an oppressive use of "damn," "bastards," "sons of bitches" and similar expressions. In moderation they can be funny, in excess they quickly lose their impact. "Bastards" is not an inherently funny word, as Schmidt would have us believe...
Cobb College is a rich New Hampshire institution, well stocked with preposterous pedants, campus lagos, academic racketeers and addled eggheads. As such, it is the latest member of the poison ivy league founded by Mary McCarthy (Groves of Academe), Vladimir Nabokov (Pnin) and Randall Jarrell (Pictures from an Institution). It may or may not be patterned on Wesleyan University's Institute of Advanced Studies, where Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson spent some time with her husband Sir Charles Snow as visiting British fellows...
...Gift, by Vladimir Nabokov. A comic fantasy about Russian émigré life in Berlin by the most famous literary magician now at work...
...Gift, by Vladimir Nabokov. A magician of language rummages in his tarnished memories of Russian émigré life in Berlin and comes up with a delightful comic fantasy-and a symbolic assault on Philistinism in Russian culture...
...Gift, by Vladimir Nabokov. A magician of language rummages in his tarnished memories of Russian emigre life in Berlin, and comes up with a delightful comic fantasy-and a symbolic assault on Philistinism in Russian culture...