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TL to Michel Mohrt from Vladimir Nabokov, January 19, 1965 ., January 19, 1965

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 46

Scope and Contents

Written from the Palace Hôtel, Montreux, in English, expressing on the whole delight with the Girard/Coindreau translation of Pale Fire, which he says is "certainly the finest I have ever been given." Notes some "incredible blunders", and insists that his corrections be taken into account, rather than dismissed as the examples of VN's "special brand of French", or at least that he be given the last word in which rendering will appear in the final version. "I have sufficient French to know more exactly than [C.] when his French does not correspond to my English."

Dates

  • January 19, 1965

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

2.5 cubic feet. (2.5 cubic feet.)

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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