Vladimir Nabokov. Vasiliy Shishkov : Клуб изучающих испанский языкVladimir Nabokov. Vasiliy Shishkov
Vladimir Nabokov. VASILIY SHISHKOV
in an emigre magazine, and lovers of poetry no ticed its originality.* To the poet that was so strangely gourmand in regard to another's opinion, I incontinently expressed mine, adding, as a corrective, that the poem in question contained some tiny fluctua tions of style such as, for instance, the not quite idiomatic v soldatskih mundirab; here mundir (uniform) should rather be, forma when refer *See note, page 656. ring as it did to the lower ranks. The line, however, was much too good to be tampered with.
"You know what," said Shishkov, "since you agree with me that my poems are not trifles, let me leave that book in your keeping. One never knows what may happen; strang