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Re: [NABOKV-L] THOUGHTS re: Rote, EliotS. Gwynn: "Hirondelle," the French spelling of "Irondell," corresponds to the name of the coach that Emma takes to meet Leon.
JM:There are indirect links that reinforce the information about "Irondell" S.Gwynn offered to the list, but I cannot see how they might inform or relate to Sybil and Madame Bovary, nor to any adulterous encounters as we find in ADA or in KQK's "hirondelle-swallow" ( these are the only ones I remember now).
Emma and Léon's drive in a "hackney cab" ( was this the "Hirondelle"?) takes up two memorable pages of Nabokov's Lectures on Literature on Flaubert and Madame Bovary, close to his references to the opera Lucia de Lammermoor and to the Rouen Cathedral.
In ADA, Van stays at a cheap hotel named Lammermoor before one of his meetings with Ada.
Also at the begining of the novel there is a reference to Flaubert, opera and buggy: "Van reached the third lawn, and the bower, and carefully inspected the stage prepared for the scene, 'like a provincial come an hour too early to the opera after jogging all day along harvest roads with poppies and bluets catching and twinkle-twining in the wheels of his buggy' (Floeberg's Ursula).[ DB's note do page 103: Floeberg: Flaubert's style is mimicked in this pseudo quotation.]
In KQK we find the "swallow" ( hirondelle) that shines when Martha meets her future lover and, much later, during the boating trip associated to her plans to murder her husband : " The lady wore a black suit and a diminutive black had with a little diamond swallow"..."the light in the window had dimmed, but in compensation the reflection of Martha's little bright swallow had appeared in it"..."to flatten his oars over the water, swallow-like on the backstroke..."
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JM:There are indirect links that reinforce the information about "Irondell" S.Gwynn offered to the list, but I cannot see how they might inform or relate to Sybil and Madame Bovary, nor to any adulterous encounters as we find in ADA or in KQK's "hirondelle-swallow" ( these are the only ones I remember now).
Emma and Léon's drive in a "hackney cab" ( was this the "Hirondelle"?) takes up two memorable pages of Nabokov's Lectures on Literature on Flaubert and Madame Bovary, close to his references to the opera Lucia de Lammermoor and to the Rouen Cathedral.
In ADA, Van stays at a cheap hotel named Lammermoor before one of his meetings with Ada.
Also at the begining of the novel there is a reference to Flaubert, opera and buggy: "Van reached the third lawn, and the bower, and carefully inspected the stage prepared for the scene, 'like a provincial come an hour too early to the opera after jogging all day along harvest roads with poppies and bluets catching and twinkle-twining in the wheels of his buggy' (Floeberg's Ursula).[ DB's note do page 103: Floeberg: Flaubert's style is mimicked in this pseudo quotation.]
In KQK we find the "swallow" ( hirondelle) that shines when Martha meets her future lover and, much later, during the boating trip associated to her plans to murder her husband : " The lady wore a black suit and a diminutive black had with a little diamond swallow"..."the light in the window had dimmed, but in compensation the reflection of Martha's little bright swallow had appeared in it"..."to flatten his oars over the water, swallow-like on the backstroke..."
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