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Should Nabokov’s final manuscript be destroyed?
By Tom Teicholz at 17 January, 2008, 10:28 am
Ron Rosenbaum, who has thought deeply and written lengthily about his obsessions and insights regarding the work of Vladmir Nabokov has a piece in Slate where he weighs in on the dilemma facing Nabokov’s son Dmitri as to whether he should follow his father’s wishes and destroy the notes made for a never finished novel [...]
Read More >>Should Nabokov’s final manuscript be destroyed?
By Tom Teicholz at 17 January, 2008, 10:28 am
Ron Rosenbaum, who has thought deeply and written lengthily about his obsessions and insights regarding the work of Vladmir Nabokov has a piece in Slate where he weighs in on the dilemma facing Nabokov’s son Dmitri as to whether he should follow his father’s wishes and destroy the notes made for a never finished novel [...]
Read More >>Should Nabokov’s final manuscript be destroyed?
By Tom Teicholz at 17 January, 2008, 10:28 am
Ron Rosenbaum, who has thought deeply and written lengthily about his obsessions and insights regarding the work of Vladmir Nabokov has a piece in Slate where he weighs in on the dilemma facing Nabokov’s son Dmitri as to whether he should follow his father’s wishes and destroy the notes made for a never finished novel [...]
Read More >>Should Nabokov’s final manuscript be destroyed?
By Tom Teicholz at 17 January, 2008, 10:28 am
Ron Rosenbaum, who has thought deeply and written lengthily about his obsessions and insights regarding the work of Vladmir Nabokov has a piece in Slate where he weighs in on the dilemma facing Nabokov’s son Dmitri as to whether he should follow his father’s wishes and destroy the notes made for a never finished novel [...]
Read More >>WHO’S HOTTER THAN SPINOZA?
By Tom Teicholz at 14 January, 2008, 2:08 pm
This morning’s New York Times carries a review of David
Ives’ play, “New Jerusalem: the Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud
Torah Congregation, Amsterdam, July
27 1656,†capping a veritable trifecta of publicity for the 17th
Century Philosopher who was excommunicated by Amsterdam’s Jewish community
(interestingly, his grandparents were conversos who fled the Spanish
inquisition, and were expelled from France. [...]