| Subject: | Re: [NABOKV-L] V. Fet re: L'Envoi |
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| Date: | Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:53:12 -0700 (PDT) |
| From: | Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com> |
| To: | Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU> |
What Victor Fet describes is the use of "envoi" I'm familiar with
in English, along with the extended sense of a poem or other short
piece to "send off" the reader at the end of a long work. An
example is Kipling's poem "L'Envoi" ("He travels the fastest who
travels alone")--a cynical coda to the cynical /Story of the
Gadsbys/. I imagine this is the intended sense in /Lectures on
Literature/.
Jerry Friedman