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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@carlzoilus Not 100% sure but I'm pretty confident that M&M wasn't available anywhere before 1967.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@carlzoilus widely reproduced Telegraph blurb says "circulated in samizdat form for decades"2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mvsyyz@carlzoilus Really? I didn't know that. I was trying to find references in Nabokov to see if he read Bulgakov & didn't find much.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@carlzoilus@mvsyyz Huh -- I should've checked in M&M's history. For some reason I thought M&M wasn't widely known till 1967.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@carlzoilus other accounts suggest that is the case1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@mvsyyz @carlzoilus You know what, I should just write to VN's biographer Brian Boyd and ask him what he thinks of all this.
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