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1. Forget Lolita - let's hear it for lepidoptery...

Сайт: http://nabokov-lit.ru Размер: 6кб.

1. Forget Lolita - let's hear it for lepidoptery...

Сайт: http://nabokov-lit.ru Размер: 6кб.

Часть текста: Lolita - let's hear it for lepidoptery... Science doesn't quite meet literature in a collection of technical papers and butterfly inspired writing in Nabokov's Butterflies Adam Mars-Jones Sunday March 19, 2000 Vladimir Nabokov was an expert on butterflies. He not only collected them obsessively but invented techniques to make their classification more precise. This volume brings together technical papers and butterfly-themed passages from his work. The closest comparable case of a major author having world eminence in another expertise would be A. E. Housman, who emended corrupt classical texts with the same analytical exquisiteness that Nabokov used to revise the classification of butterflies, according to the details of their dissected genitals. Classical philology is hardly a more popular or accessible pursuit than lepidoptery, but the volume (edited by Christopher Ricks), which includes passages from Housman's technical writings as well as the poems, is an outstanding success. The advantages of that book over this one were that it was wieldy, that it never left the domain of culture and that it showed a side of the writer absent from his verse. The slyly fatalistic persona of the poet made a fascinating contrast with the professor of Latin, who was a doughty if not brutal scrapper, and...