Monday, May 27, 2019

I used to have this, but I sent it back to Burma--

https://www.amazon.com/Nabokovs-Dozen-Vladimir-Nabokov/dp/0140014934

where nobody reads.

I could have sold it for $135.

 But no, I sent it back, when there was still sea mail, $100 for 100 lbs.

I found Nabokov's short stories good, but disorientating, because he meets the women he meets, in Berlin, in somewhere in Europe, in somewhere else, at intervals of years.

At the time I read this, I was still in graduate school at Penn, and still thinking I would return to Burma, which became impossible after 1988.

Now I know Nabokov was very realistic in depicting the exile life.

That's it for now.

kmk

5-27-2019

Maison Nabokov in Sr Petersbrug.

Estate owned by 16 year old Nabokov for one year before 1917 Revolution.



Gorgon/Gorgons--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgons