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Dear Alexey,
You wrote:
> Like real people, literary characters can have only one mother and one
> (biological) father. Van and Ada make no exception.
Book characters are not real people and they can have as much parents, as the
author wishes (see for example At-Swim-Two-Birds by Flenn O'Brian/Brian
O'Nuallain). In case of Van and Ada the european literature itself,
metaphorically speaking, can be their mother or father.
But actually, the only REAL parent is the writer himself...
Julia.
ZY This forum seems to be very lively thanx to the endless sexual power of
Nabokov's novels. But, hey, dudes! It's only literature, let's concentrate on
critics, not the problems of reproduction!
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You wrote:
> Like real people, literary characters can have only one mother and one
> (biological) father. Van and Ada make no exception.
Book characters are not real people and they can have as much parents, as the
author wishes (see for example At-Swim-Two-Birds by Flenn O'Brian/Brian
O'Nuallain). In case of Van and Ada the european literature itself,
metaphorically speaking, can be their mother or father.
But actually, the only REAL parent is the writer himself...
Julia.
ZY This forum seems to be very lively thanx to the endless sexual power of
Nabokov's novels. But, hey, dudes! It's only literature, let's concentrate on
critics, not the problems of reproduction!
----- End forwarded message -----