Volume 27, Number 20 · December 18, 1980
Nabokov's Show
By Robert M. Adams
Lectures on Literature: British, French, and German Writers
by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Fredson Bowers, with an introduction by John Updike
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 344 pp., $19.95
Publication of Vladimir Nabokov's Cornell lectures on literature, while a welcome event in itself, may be a harbinger of disasters to come. Thousands of literary professors, in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, have in their file-cabinets typed or handwritten texts of their lectures on literature. Won't they qualify for publication too? Well, probably not.
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