Thisman's conviction that translation should entirely bow to the intent of the author caused his fallingout with (*) Edmund Wilson, who called his translation of Eugene Onegin unpoetic.
This man made his students learn the parts of a windmill and argued that the central characterwon an encounter for everyone he lost in his Lectures on Don Quixote. He claimed to differ fromJoseph Conrad "conradically" in one of the interviews collected in his book Strong Opinions. Thisman's conviction that translation should entirely bow to the intent of the author caused his fallingout with (*) Edmund Wilson, who called his translation of Eugene Onegin unpoetic. This man'scorrespondence with Wilson is collected in Dear Bunny, Dear Vodolya, and his thoughts on translation arefound in Notes on Prosody. He described his love of butterflies and his emigration to America in hismemoir Speak, Memory. For 10 points, name this author of Pale Fire and Lolita.
This man made his students learn the parts of a windmill and argued that the central characterwon an encounter for everyone he lost in his Lectures on Don Quixote.
Vladimir Nabokov