Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0021495, Sat, 2 Apr 2011 22:29:18 +0200

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Re: Subject:,travail graphique sur Nabokov
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It seems to me that the painting is inspired by the description of the
suburban map in *Despair, *chapter three:

*Let us suppose I am holding that map before me; then the city of Berlin,
which is outside the picture, maybe imagined somewhere in the vicinity of my
left elbow.[...]the railway line, which, metaphysically at least, runs along
my sleeve cuffward from Berlin. My wristwatch is the small town of
Koenigsdorf,[...]where there is another circle (the lower button of my
waistcoat): Eichenberg.[...]the main road, leaves it and continues nirth
alone, straight to the village of Waldau (the nail of my left thumb). *
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Best,

Hafid Bouazza

2011/4/2 Jansy <jansy@aetern.us>

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> *Axel Roy* (axeledelroy@gmail.com) in 30 Mar 2011 posted "quelques images
> de mon travail sur Nabokov."
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> *JM*: I'd just confessed to my fascination with coincidences after
> posting a bit on painting, cartoons and Axel Rex. Now we're kindly invited
> to write a comment on the marvellous lines and colors blossoming into
> Nabokov's faces, one in particular with shadows, nerves and a suggestion of
> road-maps, by the artist Axel Roy. If I had any artistic talent and
> expertise, as many fellow Nab-List members possess, I'd write more
> expansively about Axel Roy's dramatic portraiture on Nabokov's face. I must
> limit myself to say that "Nabokov" with its almost devilish eyes and
> mysterious half-smile is the best depiction I've yet seen.
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