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JM: I¹m away from my books, but recall VN in Lolita, discussing the cultural
differences in defining ³paedophilia,² mentions the fact that Beatrice was 9
years old when Dante was ³smitten² -- or ³lust at first sight,² as we say in
Liverpool. (Wiki says she was 8 and Dante 9, so we don¹t have either the
HH/Lo or HH/Annabelle syndrome.)
Dante¹s Astronomical insights are indeed wondrous. For an astronomer¹s
adulation, see
http://ephemeris.sjaa.net/0209/b.html
skb
On 15/11/2008 12:41, "jansymello" <jansy@AETERN.US> wrote:
> Fran Assa: ... research comparing Pale Fire with its venerated poet John Shade
> and its would-be poet Charles Kinbote to Dante's Divine Comedy[...] Are there
> sufficient connections between the works to justify my belief that there may
> be an allusion here? [...] what would have been his purpose in such an
> allusion?
>
> JM: Because I remembered Argentinian Borges (once dscribed by VN somewhat
> loosely in relation to "miniature minotaurs"), and his exceptional collection
> of Essays on Dante, this is where I set my focus. In his prologue to these
> essays Borges describes a magic tapestry in which everything, past present and
> future, is represented.Next he compares this "microcosm" to Dante's Divina
> Commedia, clearly bounded by Roman Catholicism and Ptolemaic astronomy. The
> Arcadian hypothesis ( as a recovered place, similar to a paradise with its
> apple and serpent, where one can mourn for forever-lost love) is mentioned in
> relation to Dante. * Borges' s chief emphasis, though, is on Dante's
> exceptional rendering of "details" and in his lectures we often can find views
> that are very closely related to Nabokov's own.
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differences in defining ³paedophilia,² mentions the fact that Beatrice was 9
years old when Dante was ³smitten² -- or ³lust at first sight,² as we say in
Liverpool. (Wiki says she was 8 and Dante 9, so we don¹t have either the
HH/Lo or HH/Annabelle syndrome.)
Dante¹s Astronomical insights are indeed wondrous. For an astronomer¹s
adulation, see
http://ephemeris.sjaa.net/0209/b.html
skb
On 15/11/2008 12:41, "jansymello" <jansy@AETERN.US> wrote:
> Fran Assa: ... research comparing Pale Fire with its venerated poet John Shade
> and its would-be poet Charles Kinbote to Dante's Divine Comedy[...] Are there
> sufficient connections between the works to justify my belief that there may
> be an allusion here? [...] what would have been his purpose in such an
> allusion?
>
> JM: Because I remembered Argentinian Borges (once dscribed by VN somewhat
> loosely in relation to "miniature minotaurs"), and his exceptional collection
> of Essays on Dante, this is where I set my focus. In his prologue to these
> essays Borges describes a magic tapestry in which everything, past present and
> future, is represented.Next he compares this "microcosm" to Dante's Divina
> Commedia, clearly bounded by Roman Catholicism and Ptolemaic astronomy. The
> Arcadian hypothesis ( as a recovered place, similar to a paradise with its
> apple and serpent, where one can mourn for forever-lost love) is mentioned in
> relation to Dante. * Borges' s chief emphasis, though, is on Dante's
> exceptional rendering of "details" and in his lectures we often can find views
> that are very closely related to Nabokov's own.
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