Now is the springtime...
"March. Caterwauling in the
dusk.
Tender is the Night, though rather hoarse."-(Lara Biyuts about the novel Tender
is the Night)
3 small notes
from my Facebook page, summed up here, on the blog:
from my Facebook page, summed up here, on the blog:
1).Opera Montezuma (1755), by
Carl Heinrich Graun (1704-1759), with the libretto written in French by Graun's
patron, Frederick the Great, the King of Prussia.
As Vladimir Nabokov said about
one of his paternal grandsires in the interview to the German TV, 1971, “…his
wife, grandmother of my grandmother […] was a granddaughter of the composer
Carl Heinrich Graun.”
2).In memory of Dmitri Nabokov
(1934-2012).
my friends know that I am a huge
fan of Vladimir Nabokov. His son Dmitri was born in 1934 (like my late father,
merely in May, and my father in April. My father was a compatriot of Dmitri’s
parents, and Dmitri’s birthplace was Berlin.) I little know about his life,
merely, he appears as an angel-looking little boy in the book “Speak, Memory!”
written by his father, and then, we can guess how much he did for his father’s
and mother’s memory. (Someone will do it for his, I am sure.) With his death,
his line is extinct which always was what his family enemies dreamt about, but
his cousins are numerous in the world, as far as I know, (just like mine :/ ).
R.I.P.
3).Recently, I translated the new
book Terug naar Hiroshima–Return to Hiroshima written by Bob Van Laerhoven,
Belgian Novelist (the bobvanlaerhoven.be/en)
Afterwards, I learnt that my work
on the translation was in process of being finished/polished at the hours when
Dmitri Nabokov was dying in the hospital in Vevey, Switzerland on February 22,
2012, and at heart, I dedicated this translation to D.N., whose work for his
father’s memory I always appreciated, all the more that I love the book Return
to Hiroshima as a reader, believing it is an excellent
fiction/thriller/detective fiction, worth reading and translating. Here is the
fragment in English:
Finally, at Toni Grace Sinns'
website, you can read my interview and more mentions of V. N.:
http://lilgracielou.blogspot.com/2012/03/interview-with-author-larisa-biyuts.html
:)
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