Introduction and Breath

Allan Anderson · 13 Apr 2011, 23:01 · from 2011-April.txt.gz

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From: rubel at goosemoon.org (Allan Anderson)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:01:54 -0700
Subject: (urth) Introduction and Breath
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>wrote:

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> Editor B, Pale Fire is one of my favorite books too, but when I mention it
> or
> Nabokov here, no one responds.
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I adored Lolita and Ada, but haven't yet read Pale Fire or anything else by
Nabakov. Oh, except for those lectures where he rips into Dostoyevsky and
praises Tolstoy.

I haven't really thought about Nabakov in a critical fashion, so perhaps
that's why little occurs to me when comparing him to Wolfe. What's an
interesting place to start? The way they present their narrators?

I'm a tad skeptical of an explanation of the BotNS narrative's lacunae which
relies completely on a book written so much later on. I don't mind if the
answer isn't concrete, but I'd really want the book's puzzles to contribute
to the experience of the book as it stands alone.
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