Nabokov had indefensible opinions about: Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolf, Hemingway, Sartre, Ezra Pound, & probably many more.
@yeselson @CoreyRobin Updike: early letters of VN and EW display "a serene and mutual deafness." Later became less serene.
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@HeerJeet@CoreyRobin Perfect. They got into a pissing match about reading Russian, as I recall--did N criticize a translation of W? -
@yeselson@CoreyRobin VN put out a very eccentric Pushkin translation which EW objected to. Neither came out looking good in exchange. - Show replies
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