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Explore the intriguing lives of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, two renowned writers with opposing views, as they navigated their complicated friendship. Delve into their wit, humor, and quirks, a...
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December 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
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Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and Who Was Smarter
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December 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
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Paul Theroux observed that "friendship is plainer but deeper than love. A friend knows your faults and forgives them, but more than that, a friend is a witness [emphasis added.]"
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December 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Paul Theroux observed that "friendship is plainer but deeper than love. A friend knows your faults and forgives them, but more than that, a friend is a witness [emphasis added.]"
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Around that time Nabokov sent a check to the Israeli ambassador in Switzerland during what became known as the Yom Kippur War; "I would like to make a small contribution to Israel's defense against the Arabolshevist aggression."
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Around that time Nabokov sent a check to the Israeli ambassador in Switzerland during what became known as the Yom Kippur War; "I would like to make a small contribution to Israel's defense against the Arabolshevist aggression."
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Gentlemen, even if one allows that he is an important writer, are we next to invite an elephant to be Professor of Zoology?Soon afterward Hurricane Lolita blew Nabokov to the Alps,where he became more famous & richer, than an entire Fellows Table of Harvard professors.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Gentlemen, even if one allows that he is an important writer, are we next to invite an elephant to be Professor of Zoology?Soon afterward Hurricane Lolita blew Nabokov to the Alps,where he became more famous & richer, than an entire Fellows Table of Harvard professors.
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After reading Wilson's piece at home in Montreux, Nabokov cabled Barbara Epstein in New York: "Please reserve space in next issue for my thunder."
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December 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
After reading Wilson's piece at home in Montreux, Nabokov cabled Barbara Epstein in New York: "Please reserve space in next issue for my thunder."
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Poor Vladimir. An exile. An orphan. A stranger to two worlds and in two languages. A Conrad manqué. Wilson was trafficking in precisely the kind of "human interest" twaddle that Nabokow reviled. #TheFeud25 #VladimirNabokov #EdmundWilson
December 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Poor Vladimir. An exile. An orphan. A stranger to two worlds and in two languages. A Conrad manqué. Wilson was trafficking in precisely the kind of "human interest" twaddle that Nabokow reviled. #TheFeud25 #VladimirNabokov #EdmundWilson
an egregious example of his style at its most perversepedantic impossible," according to Wilson. One's heart goes out to the tired spines of the reference works in the two men's respective homes, clearly in need of bibliorthopedic intervention.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
an egregious example of his style at its most perversepedantic impossible," according to Wilson. One's heart goes out to the tired spines of the reference works in the two men's respective homes, clearly in need of bibliorthopedic intervention.
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"The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov,' finally appeared in July 1965
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The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov | Edmund Wilson
This production, though in certain ways valuable, is something of a disappointment; and the reviewer, though a personal friend of Mr. Nabokov—for whom he
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"The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov,' finally appeared in July 1965
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What takes Pushkin 140 iambs to express takes Nabokov fifteen pages of dense analysis. The "Pedal Digression," Nabokov writes, "is one of the wonders of the work.""
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December 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
What takes Pushkin 140 iambs to express takes Nabokov fifteen pages of dense analysis. The "Pedal Digression," Nabokov writes, "is one of the wonders of the work.""
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Mr. Nabokov has the point of view of an old-fashioned Russian of the better classes, one, that is say, who quite normally spoke French to his equals and Russian to his servants....
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December 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Mr. Nabokov has the point of view of an old-fashioned Russian of the better classes, one, that is say, who quite normally spoke French to his equals and Russian to his servants....
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The New Yorker, titled "On translating Eugene Onegin." The opening lines are famous:
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December 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The New Yorker, titled "On translating Eugene Onegin." The opening lines are famous:
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Nabokov working at his desk at Cornell, The folders of his Onegin draft loom in the foreground. (Photograph by Maclean Dameron, Cornell University Photo Sciences Dept, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library)
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December 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Nabokov working at his desk at Cornell, The folders of his Onegin draft loom in the foreground. (Photograph by Maclean Dameron, Cornell University Photo Sciences Dept, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library)
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Pushkin's own sketch of himself and Onegin, lounging on the Neva embankment. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
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December 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Pushkin's own sketch of himself and Onegin, lounging on the Neva embankment. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
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Onegin is some of the most beautiful Russian poetry ever written. Its organization is chaotic. It is all very Russian.
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December 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Onegin is some of the most beautiful Russian poetry ever written. Its organization is chaotic. It is all very Russian.
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* It was Nabokov's contention that only Russian female performers like the ballerina Anna Pavlova merited feminization, with the added a, of their family names. This came off as a silly quirk, certainly to his wife Vera, who signed her letters "Véra
Nabokova."
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Nabokova."
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December 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
* It was Nabokov's contention that only Russian female performers like the ballerina Anna Pavlova merited feminization, with the added a, of their family names. This came off as a silly quirk, certainly to his wife Vera, who signed her letters "Véra
Nabokova."
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Nabokova."
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"He and I disagree on everything in literature except Pushkin," Wilson told an interviewer not long before this, their final meeting. Pushkin would be the last to go.
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December 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"He and I disagree on everything in literature except Pushkin," Wilson told an interviewer not long before this, their final meeting. Pushkin would be the last to go.
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In his income tax jeremiad, Wilson concluded, "I have finally come to feel that this country, whether or not I continue to live in it, is no longer any place for me."
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December 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
In his income tax jeremiad, Wilson concluded, "I have finally come to feel that this country, whether or not I continue to live in it, is no longer any place for me."
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Wilson's father had refused to own stocks, considering them to be empty speculation Wilson was never vaccinated; no one knows why. Certain things he did not do: He did not accept an honorary degree from Harvard, and he did not accept a life-extending pacemaker
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December 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Wilson's father had refused to own stocks, considering them to be empty speculation Wilson was never vaccinated; no one knows why. Certain things he did not do: He did not accept an honorary degree from Harvard, and he did not accept a life-extending pacemaker
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Wilson thought he "could always attend to this obligation later," and the one time he decided pay a tax bill--his 1955 book on the Dead Sea Scrolls sold well-_his check bounced.
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December 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Wilson thought he "could always attend to this obligation later," and the one time he decided pay a tax bill--his 1955 book on the Dead Sea Scrolls sold well-_his check bounced.
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For many years he didn't pay taxes because he preferred to spend his money on foreign travel, sumptuous meals, and private schools for his children. During the fat year of Hecate's best-sellerdom, he had plenty of cash, but continued to stiff the IRS.
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December 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
For many years he didn't pay taxes because he preferred to spend his money on foreign travel, sumptuous meals, and private schools for his children. During the fat year of Hecate's best-sellerdom, he had plenty of cash, but continued to stiff the IRS.
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In October 1958, Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for Literature. and Doctor Zhivago leapfrogged over Lolita to the number-one spot on best-seller lists all over the world. #TheFeud25 #VladimirNabokov #EdmundWilson
December 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
In October 1958, Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for Literature. and Doctor Zhivago leapfrogged over Lolita to the number-one spot on best-seller lists all over the world. #TheFeud25 #VladimirNabokov #EdmundWilson
When first manuscripts of Dr Zhivago surfaced in the West,a friend suggested the ideal translator to Pasternak: a poet, who is completely bilingual: Nabokov. That won't work, asternak replied. He's too jealous of my wretched position in this country to do it properly. #TheFeud25
December 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
When first manuscripts of Dr Zhivago surfaced in the West,a friend suggested the ideal translator to Pasternak: a poet, who is completely bilingual: Nabokov. That won't work, asternak replied. He's too jealous of my wretched position in this country to do it properly. #TheFeud25
Altho Lolita was battling heavy weather in the Old World the US had moved on from days when conservative Catholic publicists could pillory indecent books. Muchbanned books Joyce's Ulysses & DHLawrence's Lady Chatterley's Loverfinding their way, legally into bookstores #TheFeud25
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Altho Lolita was battling heavy weather in the Old World the US had moved on from days when conservative Catholic publicists could pillory indecent books. Muchbanned books Joyce's Ulysses & DHLawrence's Lady Chatterley's Loverfinding their way, legally into bookstores #TheFeud25
Nabokov left a brief rhyme in Russian: "There are nights when as soon as I lie down/My bed sails off to Russia."
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December 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Nabokov left a brief rhyme in Russian: "There are nights when as soon as I lie down/My bed sails off to Russia."
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