James Wood
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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Absolutely.
Um I i it th there's just a m amazing warmth and generosity.
I think you're right that the the the chapter six, the the party chapter does seem an absolutely crucial, pivotal one.
I mean if we think of the structure of this book and I'm I'm sure we'll be a we'll there probably won't be much structure in our conversation, alas.
Um but if we think of the structure of this book, it really is sort of
Perfect, despite the fact I think that it probably was written.
I mean, you know, going back to the going to Nabokov's index cards, I mean I think it was written in a way in the if the equivalent chapter by chapter of index cards.
That's to say, I think there were there were more chapters than than are in the book.
Um that that there was a possibility of having a sort of picteresque number of different chapters, three or four outside.
Mm-hmm.
I think were published as separate stories in the New Yorker.
Yeah.
We've pin in
Um w we' we we're introduced to Penin on campus and all the jokes about him.
Um we have that chapter
five, which is the to me a very moving sort of gathering of these Russian emigres who are essentially just enjoying in an Abakovian way their their fond uh allusions um with each other that are that are that are incommunicable to the rest of America.
That's what that's that's it it it j that's the pathos it seems to me.
So chapter five you've got this gathering of emigres.
And then chapter six
Six, this is where the structure is lovely.
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