Re: great american writers!

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Jim wrote:
> He's an expatriate Russian
> commenting on America while living in it.  Still maybe an American
> writer, but we have different expectations of him and what to get out of
> his writing.

Yeah - and like I've said before, I think some of the finest and most
accurate portrayals of America have been done by foreigners - like I said,
the goldfish can't draw it's own bowl. To me, there's always something
quintessentially continental about Nabokov's take on American culture.

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