NPPF - preliminary

[Jasper Fidget]

According to Boyd, VN worked on _Eugene Onegin_ from 1949 to 1957, and its
publication in 1964 was due to publishing problems.  I think there's
definitely reason to believe this work influenced _Pale Fire_.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of Malignd
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:47 AM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> 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.
> 
> <<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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