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Quoye Query: Painterly novels/novelistic painting... (fwd)
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Query about a passage from Nabokov in which he compares writing to
painting. Nabokov points out that (unlike in the case of a novel) one's
sense of a painting's overall structure is immediate.
A friend wants to use this idea in a review of the new Solzhenitsyn
(believe it or not). But where is it from? I'm thinking the lectures...?
But which one...?
P.S. On the new LOLITA film which I saw recently--where were the laughs?
And everything was so soft-focused and Masterpiece Theatrical...or
Merchandized Ivory...
painting. Nabokov points out that (unlike in the case of a novel) one's
sense of a painting's overall structure is immediate.
A friend wants to use this idea in a review of the new Solzhenitsyn
(believe it or not). But where is it from? I'm thinking the lectures...?
But which one...?
P.S. On the new LOLITA film which I saw recently--where were the laughs?
And everything was so soft-focused and Masterpiece Theatrical...or
Merchandized Ivory...