1. I have this completely cockamamie theory about Nabokov which no one is going to buy but this is twitter, so I'll put it forward.
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2. There's a scene in Pnin where the title character is feeding nuts to squirrels on a park bench and has an intimation of his mortality.
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3. To my mind that scene in Pnin always echoed similar scene in Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
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4. Here's the thing: while writing Pnin in early 1950s, Nabokov couldn't possibly have read Master & Margarita
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5. Master and Margarita written between 1928 and 1940, first published in 1967. Existed before Pnin but not available to Nabokov.
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6. It's possible that both Nabokov and Bulgakov were influenced by the same writers, leading to creation of similar scenes independently.
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7. But here's another theory. In his exile, VN was constantly thinking about Russia, imagining it from afar.
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@cindynorth1 Sure, that's also likely.
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