Chekhov's Mistress
Nabokov the Novel Bioligist
The most interesting thing about this New York Times article (”St. Petersburg Exhibition Shows Nabokov Under (and Behind) a Microscope,” July 26 ) on an exhibition at the Nabokov museum in St. Petersburg is that “some scholars of Nabokov’s writing have regarded his entomology work as part of a carefully devised effort to shape his public image. Andrew Field, his first biographer, called it “an elaborate literary pose.” Seems unlikely to me, but I haven’t seen the “scholarship” on the issue.
The exhibition is, it seems, a series of photographs of butterflies along with relevant quotes from Nobokov’s literature. Sounds slightly more interesting than Shakespeare’s garden, which is very nice but other than realizing that Shakespeare knew the names of a lot of plants, does not hold any particularly literary beauty for anyone other than perhaps the most devout fans.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: July 31, 2006
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Wise Men Fish Here: Literature
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