Subject: Re: L. Manning Vines
From: Paul Miller (phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 02:03:37 EST
Bruce wrote:
I was startled to read in "UWIC" that the favorite author of
Eloise's husband, Lew, is L. Manning Vines. Surely, we aren't suppose to
jump to conclusions when Buddy mentions, in _RHTRBC_, his company
commander's favorite author is
you-know-who.-----------------------------------------
Well you never know with JDS. It's like I was sure Babe Gladwaller was
Sergeant X because he is a Father Zossima fan and Sergeant X uses a quote
from Zossima in For Esme, but alas Babe was not married during the war and
Sergeant X was.
You will be relieved to learn that Mr. Vines, who knows his way around an
igloo, does not figure in the voluminous correspondence of That German
Poet.)
--Bruce--------------------------------------------------------------------
No, not in the correspondence, but Rilke did translate Vine's book into very
fluid and breathing German, in fact it has been considered a model for
English-German translators for the last fifty years. : )
Paul
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