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Re: [NABOKV-L] VN's DismissalsStan K-B,
I thought I was using the term as chosen by Nabokov in "Pale Fire" ( "Auto da Fé" as we find it in English) for John Shade while burning his rejected poems in the backyard. I didn't check"!
In Portuguese the correct expression is, as you pointed out, " Auto de Fé".
Jansy
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From: Stan Kelly-Bootle
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Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] VN's Dismissals
On 29/6/06 13:32, "Nabokv-L" <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU> wrote:
Jansy: you write
We can be almost sure that no "Auto de [da - nyet?! -- skb] Fé" awaits these authors. I also fear that books, like "Ada, or Ardor" or Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" would prove rather difficult to memorize ( if we had to rely on a solution like the one proposed by Ray Bradbury...)
Many of us can indeed rattle off teems and tonnes of Finnegans Wake - for all its encrypted excesses (as noted by VN), FW does have a melodic, memorable flow for the gaelic ear and gob. One might note the same 'formulaic' patterns that helped the 'preliterate' Homeric bards.
I would agree, though, that Ulysses and Ada offer similar challenges to memorizers.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
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I thought I was using the term as chosen by Nabokov in "Pale Fire" ( "Auto da Fé" as we find it in English) for John Shade while burning his rejected poems in the backyard. I didn't check"!
In Portuguese the correct expression is, as you pointed out, " Auto de Fé".
Jansy
----- Original Message -----
From: Stan Kelly-Bootle
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] VN's Dismissals
On 29/6/06 13:32, "Nabokv-L" <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU> wrote:
Jansy: you write
We can be almost sure that no "Auto de [da - nyet?! -- skb] Fé" awaits these authors. I also fear that books, like "Ada, or Ardor" or Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" would prove rather difficult to memorize ( if we had to rely on a solution like the one proposed by Ray Bradbury...)
Many of us can indeed rattle off teems and tonnes of Finnegans Wake - for all its encrypted excesses (as noted by VN), FW does have a melodic, memorable flow for the gaelic ear and gob. One might note the same 'formulaic' patterns that helped the 'preliterate' Homeric bards.
I would agree, though, that Ulysses and Ada offer similar challenges to memorizers.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
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