NPPF - preliminary onegin

[cfalbert]

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From: "Malignd" <malignd at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:46 AM
Subject: re: NPPF - preliminary


> <<But at the same time there is the _Eugene Onegin_
> translation/annotation and the obvious fact that this
> shaped the structure, themes and method of _Pale
> Fire_.>>
>
> The comparison to Eugene Onegin and the ensuing
> squabble with Edmund Wilson are enticing comparisons,
> but that Eugene Onegin was published after Pale Fire.
> Which isn't to say that work on one didn't overlap
> with work on the other, but the chronology is
> questionable.  There's undoubtedly someone who can
> speak to this, but publication dates for PF and EO are
> 1962 and 1964, respectively, so its difficult to speak
> of EO shaping PF -- without more information, anyway.


The Walter Arendt translation I have was copyrighted in 1963, and Arendt
refers to Nabokov's comments on OE in his introduction......

what do you make of "torquated"?

I think you will be amused by what I found....

love,
cfa


> <<That is a *very* literal reading and it depends on
> who you're trusting at this point. One thing I like
> about _Pale Fire_ is that I am never exactly sure what
> happens at the end, who kills, and why. By the end I
> don't trust any of them, including the apparently
> reliable narrator who attempts to correct Kinbote's
> errors throughout. And so I can't (and deliberately
> don't want) to trust this reading either. (Though I
> accept it is the one that makes the most *sense,*
> whatever that means in this novel.)>>
>
> We'll have ample opportunity to go into this when the
> time comes.  But I don't think one needs stick to a
> "very literal reading" to be persuaded of the flesh
> and blood reality of Jack Grey.
>
>
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