Hard not to admire how Edmund Wilson taught himself Russian in his 30s and acquired a decent reading knowledge but also hard not to be amazed that this gave him the confidence to challenge Nabokov's on points of Russian diction. The audacious temerity of the autodidact.
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In fairness, he may have thought challenging Nabokov in particular would be child’s play
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He was a very good critic, though.
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True on all counts. Of course Wilson knew something about English diction.
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The linguist autodidacts are still at it!https://twitter.com/LaymansLinguist/status/1432428954170773505 …
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He took a trip down the tongue of three taps…
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