Dear Don,

I sent a comment in response to the mail in Spanish which you posted again today. It was in December
& I thought you chose not to post my answer. In any way, here it is again , Jansy

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From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@aetern.us>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Nabokov y Borges. Request for further bibliograpy

You asked: " ¿si sabe alguién algunos detalles relacionados con la
participación de Borges en el Nabokov Festival del 1983 en la universidad
de Cornell? Según él, no había leído absolutamente nada de Nabokov.
You asked if anyone can help you offering details about Borges´s
participation at the 1983 Nabokov Festival at Cornell University because, according
to Borges himself, he hadn´t yet read anything by VN.

I don´t have by me now Borges´ own lectures in America, which were published in
Portuguese a few years ago ( did this series also take place in Cornell?) but I suppose
copies of them might be easily acquired in America. There were no references to
Vladimir Nabokov that I can remember in it.

Borges´ lectures on English Literature at the University of Buenos Aires

studied the kennings, Beowulf, the runic alphabet and early anglo-saxonic texts and
elegies. From these Borges passed on to Johnson, Boswell, Macpherson, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Blake, Carlyle, Dickens, Browning, D.G.Rossetti, William Morris and
ended with a study of Robert Louis Stevenson. I found no reference to American
writers and no word about Nabokov.

Authors shared by Borges ( in these class-room annotations at Buenos Aires

University ) and VN in the latter´s English Lit. courses, were Charles Dickens and
R.L.Stevenson. Perhaps a comparison of these lectures could bring out their aesthetic
views and similarities. I look forward to getting more news on any further exploration
( you asked: ¿a qué se deben las numerosas afinidades existentes en la obra,
pensamiento ético y estético, e incluso en los gustos de estos autores?, inquiring
about the numerous affinities between their works, their aesthetic and ethical views
and tastes).
Greetings,
Jansy

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From: D. Barton Johnson
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 4:33 PM
Subject: Fw: Nabokov y Borges. Request for further bibliograpy

EDNOTE. Somehow the below from DN wound up in my SPAM box. In case it did not go out before, I
send it now.

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To: 'D. Barton Johnson'

Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 12:39 PM
Subject: FW: Nabokov y Borges. Request for further bibliograpy

Dear Don,

I doubt that List members need a translation from our nation's second language. If they do, let me know.

DN
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From: Sandy Klein [mailto:sk@starcapital.net]
Sent: dimanche, 19. décembre 2004 03:00
To: cangrande@bluewin.ch
Subject: Fwd: Nabokov y Borges. Request for further bibliograpy

From: Donald B. Johnson [mailto:chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu]

Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:53 PM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Fwd: Nabokov y Borges. Request for further bibliograpy

Buenos días. Voy a intentar hacer mi pregunta en español, dado que es el idioma que
mejor domino. Entiendo el inglés bastante bien, sólo que no sé expresarme con
soltura. Así que, si nadie entiende español, repitiré mi pregunta en inglés. Estoy
escribiendo la tesis en la universidad de Granada (España) sobre Nabokov y Borges
(ya estoy a medio camino). Sé que el tema puede parecer bastante especulativo (por
ejemplo, opinión de B. Averin), lo que pasa es que me interesa comprender, ¿a qué se
deben las numerosas afinidades existentes en la obra, pensamiento ético y estético, e
incluso en los gustos de estos autores? Conozco cuatro trabajos dedicados
especialmente al estudio comparativo de Borges y Nabokov: Stark, John O. The
Literature of Exhaustion: Borges, Nabókov, and Barth; Merivale, Patricia. The
Flaunting of Artifice in Vladimir Nabókov and Jorge Luis Borges; Lara Zavala,
Hernán. El arlequín y el soñador: Nabókov y Borges; Amusin, M., “O neshodstve
shodnogo”. Estaría muy agradecida a todos los que puedan completar esta breve
bibliografía. También quisiera preguntar, ¿si sabe alguién algunos detalles
relacionados con la participación de Borges en el Nabokov Festival del 1983 en la
universidad de Cornell? Según él, no había leído absolutamente nada de Nabokov.
Muy agradecida de antemano a todos.
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