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Re: Beheading query (fwd)
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From: Corinne Laura Scheiner <clschein@midway.uchicago.edu>
In response to the following exchange:
> From: Sam Schuman <schumans@CAA.MRS.UMN.EDU>
> > Teaching _Invitation to a Beheading_ for the first time, I need help with at
> > least two items. First, can any sense be made of the mangled Italian sung
> > by Marthe's brother in chapter nine, "Mali e trano t'amesti"? Second, who
> > are "the three merry wayfarers, Tit, Pud, and the Wandering Jew" at the end
> > of chapter eleven?
>
> THESE MERRY WAYFARERS SOMEHOW ALWAYS REMINDED ME OF "WAITING FOR GODOT," PERHAPS
> BECAUSE OF THE LINE JUST BEFORE "YOU ARE SURE HE STILL HAS NOT COME? ASKED
> CINCINNATUS.
While the above scene most certainly does resemble _Waiting for Godot_,
Beckett wrote the play in 1948, some ten years after Nabokov published
_Priglashenie na kazn'_.
Corinne Scheiner
clschein@midway.uchicago.edu
In response to the following exchange:
> From: Sam Schuman <schumans@CAA.MRS.UMN.EDU>
> > Teaching _Invitation to a Beheading_ for the first time, I need help with at
> > least two items. First, can any sense be made of the mangled Italian sung
> > by Marthe's brother in chapter nine, "Mali e trano t'amesti"? Second, who
> > are "the three merry wayfarers, Tit, Pud, and the Wandering Jew" at the end
> > of chapter eleven?
>
> THESE MERRY WAYFARERS SOMEHOW ALWAYS REMINDED ME OF "WAITING FOR GODOT," PERHAPS
> BECAUSE OF THE LINE JUST BEFORE "YOU ARE SURE HE STILL HAS NOT COME? ASKED
> CINCINNATUS.
While the above scene most certainly does resemble _Waiting for Godot_,
Beckett wrote the play in 1948, some ten years after Nabokov published
_Priglashenie na kazn'_.
Corinne Scheiner
clschein@midway.uchicago.edu