Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0015056, Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:50:18 -0700

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VN's "Smiley"
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Some years ago I wrote a paper on VN's use of typographic signs in his
writing. The text is available at the address below (on the webpage of
the Nabokov Museum in Saint Petersburg. It is in English--apart from a
few quotes in Russian that may show up on your screen as
gooble-gook---quite apprpriate to the topic. More seriously, VN was
finely attuned to the artistic potential of typographic signs such as
parentheses and italics. In addition to the paper cited below, I
devoted a longer study to the use of the graphic aspects of Old
Church Slavic alphabets symbols in VN's "Invitation to a Beheading" in
my old book "Worlds in Regression; Some Novels of VN" that is now
appearing in Russian.

Best, Don Johnson




www.nabokovmuseum.org/PDF/Johnson.pdf

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