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Matt Morris: Robbe-Grillet is rarely discussed on this forum, despite VN's obvious enjoyment of his novels. Given that THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA is supposed to be a radical departure from Nabokov's work, and given VN's interest in R-G's boundary-expanding/breaking writing, especially late in his career, I was curious if TOOL follows somewhat in this high-modernist path [...] TOOL sounds to me more like something that exists in a Robbe-Grillet abstraction (at least from the bits of details that have emerged.) [...] VN's descriptions of Gogol's everyday writings always reminds me of Robbe-Grillet.
JM: I wish I could read R-G with the same enjoyment I find in VN or were able enjoy his other favorites: Updike, for example. Or dislike his dislikes ( Thomas Mann, Dostoevsky...)
My amateurish standpoint is rather comfortable because it demands from me no particular discipline as what is recquired from a scholar. From this touristic perspective I see Nabokov as one who was able to deal with what has been quickly evolving into "hypertexts" without letting go of the "text", or who was able to break away from the freudian unconscious ( its "metaphor-metonimy" structures) while still adhering to an internal ordering process. There is never a chaos from excessive "difference" or from emissions that follow a Barthesian "plaisir du texte." Our tickets are never one-way only.
I wonder if Matt Morris could expand his suggestion about what he finds in VN ( with his bet in a transcendent otherworld) and the high-modernist path and bring us some examples of Robbe-Grillet that he considers more illustrative?
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JM: I wish I could read R-G with the same enjoyment I find in VN or were able enjoy his other favorites: Updike, for example. Or dislike his dislikes ( Thomas Mann, Dostoevsky...)
My amateurish standpoint is rather comfortable because it demands from me no particular discipline as what is recquired from a scholar. From this touristic perspective I see Nabokov as one who was able to deal with what has been quickly evolving into "hypertexts" without letting go of the "text", or who was able to break away from the freudian unconscious ( its "metaphor-metonimy" structures) while still adhering to an internal ordering process. There is never a chaos from excessive "difference" or from emissions that follow a Barthesian "plaisir du texte." Our tickets are never one-way only.
I wonder if Matt Morris could expand his suggestion about what he finds in VN ( with his bet in a transcendent otherworld) and the high-modernist path and bring us some examples of Robbe-Grillet that he considers more illustrative?
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