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[NABOKOV-L] SIGHTING "The Anatomy of Memory."
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Stan re-innaugurated a strain related to Mnemosyne and the muses, while we were comemorating Nabokv's 211th birthday (a few years more were accidentaly thrown in...) Fittingly, here is a Nabokov sighting , which I hope hasn't been brought to the List before and excusing myself for offering it a little belatedly. The book was published by the Oxford University Press in 1996...
"The Anatomy of Memory, An Anthology." by James McConkey (novelist, author of "Court of Memory"), divided in six sections ( The Nature of Memory, the Memory of Nature, Memory and Creativity, Memory,Culture, and Identity, Perspectives of Memory and Beyond Memory). It begins and ends with St. Augustine.
Nabokov is brought up on chapter V ( Perspectives of Memory: Childhood and the Middle Years) reproducing Speak,Memory's Chapter One.
It presents a brief introduction and quotes VN's lines on ch. 8: "the supreme achievement of memory... is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past."
Freud has not been left out. He is presented in chapter One, with a curious item, Freud's short paper titled "My Contact with Joseph Popper-Lynkeus."
In the brief introduction McConkey writes: " Like Augustine's Confessions, fifteen hundred years earlier, Interpretation of Dreams is an innovative foray into the subjective genre of autobiography...Freud primarily depends upon his own dreams and their causes as means to illustrating the rules underlying dream interpretation. Memory is crucial to his investigations - memory as instinct, as part of what he calls...our "primitive, ungovernable nature" and memory of actual experiences and desires, particularly from early childhood, that we distort or repress."
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"The Anatomy of Memory, An Anthology." by James McConkey (novelist, author of "Court of Memory"), divided in six sections ( The Nature of Memory, the Memory of Nature, Memory and Creativity, Memory,Culture, and Identity, Perspectives of Memory and Beyond Memory). It begins and ends with St. Augustine.
Nabokov is brought up on chapter V ( Perspectives of Memory: Childhood and the Middle Years) reproducing Speak,Memory's Chapter One.
It presents a brief introduction and quotes VN's lines on ch. 8: "the supreme achievement of memory... is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past."
Freud has not been left out. He is presented in chapter One, with a curious item, Freud's short paper titled "My Contact with Joseph Popper-Lynkeus."
In the brief introduction McConkey writes: " Like Augustine's Confessions, fifteen hundred years earlier, Interpretation of Dreams is an innovative foray into the subjective genre of autobiography...Freud primarily depends upon his own dreams and their causes as means to illustrating the rules underlying dream interpretation. Memory is crucial to his investigations - memory as instinct, as part of what he calls...our "primitive, ungovernable nature" and memory of actual experiences and desires, particularly from early childhood, that we distort or repress."
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