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I'll guess you'll have to forgive me, I haven't gone back into the archives to explore your arguments. Though I have read Jekyll and Hyde and also Pale Fire (many times) I really don't understand precisely what you think links them. I don't even remember a direct reference to Stevenson's book, not that I'm denying there is one, that's why this is a strange reading to me. My point is I'm looking for exact correspondences, not just word echoes. In other works of Nabokov's, for instance, when a link with another writer or idea is intended, it's usually not only put forth in word echoes, but in character names (such as Sybil Vane in The Vane Sisters) or constant reference to the relevant materials, Poe, Proust, and others in Lolita or reworks plot elements from said works. Also, I don't really see a similarity between a twitchy vegetarian homosexual with lax ethics, and a monster like Hyde who runs around violently assaulting and crushing bones
with apish glee.
--- On Sat, 3/7/09, Nabokv-L <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU> wrote:
From: Nabokv-L <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU>
Subject: [NABOKV-L] PF speculations
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Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 4:11 PM
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PF speculations
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Sat, 7 Mar 2009 13:19:30 -0800
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Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
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Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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Joseph Aisenberg wrote: but these kinds of speculations somehow never
resolve themselves. I'm curious, what would be the point of that sort
of double-personality game--is it a post modern joke on readers who
lose themselves in the illusion of discreet characters that simply
derive from one brain, or is it just a fun stunt?
Dear Joseph,
I ;m not sure why you say these kinds of speculations never resolve
themselves. They usually do (except in post modern gibberish). My own
speculation is that Nabokov wished to write or rather re-write Jekyll
and Hyde for a modern audience and that he wrote it in the form of a
puzzle. It makes sense to me because although in his lecture on J&H,
VN asks his students to forget everything they have ever heard, seen
or read about that famous pair, he knew this was really impossible.
Jekyll and Hyde had long entered the language and could not be
obliterated.
Carolyn
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with apish glee.
--- On Sat, 3/7/09, Nabokv-L <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU> wrote:
From: Nabokv-L <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU>
Subject: [NABOKV-L] PF speculations
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 4:11 PM
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Subject:
PF speculations
Date:
Sat, 7 Mar 2009 13:19:30 -0800
From:
Carolyn Kunin <chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
To:
Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
References:
<192303.9835.qm@web82608.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Joseph Aisenberg wrote: but these kinds of speculations somehow never
resolve themselves. I'm curious, what would be the point of that sort
of double-personality game--is it a post modern joke on readers who
lose themselves in the illusion of discreet characters that simply
derive from one brain, or is it just a fun stunt?
Dear Joseph,
I ;m not sure why you say these kinds of speculations never resolve
themselves. They usually do (except in post modern gibberish). My own
speculation is that Nabokov wished to write or rather re-write Jekyll
and Hyde for a modern audience and that he wrote it in the form of a
puzzle. It makes sense to me because although in his lecture on J&H,
VN asks his students to forget everything they have ever heard, seen
or read about that famous pair, he knew this was really impossible.
Jekyll and Hyde had long entered the language and could not be
obliterated.
Carolyn
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