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[NABOKOV-L] Gogol's didacticism: fun in parallels
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I fear the disparaging words Nabokov employed towards Joyce's toilet scenes are not in "Strong Opinions." I don't think they'll be found in his Joyce lecture, either. Any suggestions?
Once again, while perusing SO I came across several interesting sentences, which I'd like to set in parallel with others. In this case, to wonder if Hazel's nickname to John Shade reveals an appraisal of his poem ( Gogol's "didacticism" and "didactic katydid") Nabokov employs these words quite often, but for the first time did I feel the need to put them side by side.
Strong Opinions p 64/65 "The mystical didacticism of Gogol or the utilitarian moralism of Tolstoy, or the reactionary journalism of Doestoevski, are of their own poor making and in the long run nobody really takes them seriously."
Pale Fire (poem): "She twisted words: pot, top/.../ She called you a didactic katydid."
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I fear the disparaging words Nabokov employed towards Joyce's toilet scenes are not in "Strong Opinions." I don't think they'll be found in his Joyce lecture, either. Any suggestions?
Once again, while perusing SO I came across several interesting sentences, which I'd like to set in parallel with others. In this case, to wonder if Hazel's nickname to John Shade reveals an appraisal of his poem ( Gogol's "didacticism" and "didactic katydid") Nabokov employs these words quite often, but for the first time did I feel the need to put them side by side.
Strong Opinions p 64/65 "The mystical didacticism of Gogol or the utilitarian moralism of Tolstoy, or the reactionary journalism of Doestoevski, are of their own poor making and in the long run nobody really takes them seriously."
Pale Fire (poem): "She twisted words: pot, top/.../ She called you a didactic katydid."
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