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Everything I know about the emigre Russian poet Boris Poplavski’s life derives from the two sentences Nabokov devotes to him in his autobiography:
I did not meet Poplavski who died young, a far violin among near balalaikas…. His plangent tonalities I shall never forget, nor shall I ever forgive myself the ill-tempered review in which I attacked him for trivial faults in his unfledged verse.
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Tallis, R. (1999). A Far Violin. In: Theorrhoea and After. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27100-9_12
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