NPPF: Keith's Shocking Theory (was Preliminary: The Epigraph)
David Morris
fqmorris at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 15 11:14:35 CDT 2003
--- Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
> (Shade and Kinbote are mirrored in so many other ways, these characters are
practically begging to be read that way.)
I'm not sure if Keith has made this claim, but Kunin has speculated that
Kinbote/Shade are the same person, and the whole of Zembla and King Charles
(and thus Kinbote) is a manifestation of Shade's mental illness stemming fron a
childhood sexual trauma. But the Nabokov list is very skeptical...
David Morris
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