help with a reference

[Dean Worth]

Tom,
        I don't see why you have to attribute the term to Nabokov or anbody else.
It's in Ushakov, for all to see and use. Your phrase makes it sound as if
Nabokov had invented the term, which seems extremely unlikely. Regards,
Dean Worth


At 11:17 PM 4/17/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Sorry to impose on somebody's good will (and everybody's time) but . . .
>
>In a brief contribution to a festschrift I wrote that so-and-so "allows
>himself too much of, in Nabokov's term, 'otsebyatina'." I provided no
>reference, since I thought the term was too well-known to need one.
>
>Now I have received my contribution back from the editor with an insistent
>demand for a reference and, of course, a looming deadline. I can if
>necessary omit Nabokov but I would prefer not to. But searching at very
>short notice all of his writings on translation is a tall order. I checked
>with the first edition of his four-volume translation/version-and-edition
>of Evgeniy Onegin, to no avail . . .
>
>I assume that at he will have used the term OTSEBYATINA least once in the
>polemics in the *New York Review of Books* and *Encounter* of July 1965 -
>May 1966. Even so, this may not be his first use of the term. However,
>**any** reference to one of the times he uses the term (and explains it)
>will serve.
>
>If someone can assist me, and respond off-list, - thanks in advance!
>
>Tom Priestly
>
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