6.The Feud(作者:Alex Beam)
Leading literary critic Edmund Wilson lent a hand to Vladimir Nabokov when he arrived in the US in 1940, assigning him reviews and introducing him to other editors. The two exchanged fond letters for some 25 years. But as Beam makes clear in this spirited account of a bitter if sometimes silly rivalry, their career trajectories shifted in the mid-1950s. Nabokov’s Lolita brought him international recognition and a goodly fortune, just as Wilson’s star was on the wane. In 1964 Nabokov published an idiosyncratic translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin with 930 pages of notes. The feud erupted when Wilson savaged the book in the New York Review of Books in “an overlong, spiteful, stochastically accurate, generally useless but unfailingly amusing hatchet job” that set the tone for “seven-plus years of malicious rhetoric.”
1949年,Vladimir Nabokov到达美国,知名评论人Edmund Wilson向其伸出援手,安排他的工作并介绍编辑给他认识。两人通过书信维持友谊长达25年之久。在20世纪50年代中期,两位挚友的事业轨迹发生了变化。Nabokov因作品Lolita而名声大噪,而Wilson的事业则逐渐走向下坡。1964年Nabokov发表了一篇930页的普希金《叶甫盖尼·奥涅金》翻译作品,两人长达七年之久的文字对战便由Wilson在New York Review猛烈抨击这篇翻译作品拉开了帷幕。
7.A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women(作者:Siri Hustvedt)
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