NPPF: CANTO ONE More Fowler/for Jbor

[cfalbert]

I think the Ransom example is telling......and yup, I fully agree - it seems
incongruous with what the "naive reader" would see as the likely "objective"
of the work as a whole....

love,
cfa

and  if you aren't taking pleasure in what you have wrought - you
should.........this list is humming..........




 Original Message ----- 
From: "Malignd" <malignd at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: NPPF: CANTO ONE More Fowler/for Jbor


> Charles:
>
> <<I also believe, as MalignD has stated, that it would
> be out of "character" for Nab to "lead" with some
> obvious clue, even if satire was his intent...>>
>
> My main disagreement with Rob on this is that I think
> VN is up to something more subtle and fine and tricky
> than satire and parody.   I think that because I find
> there's too much that's fine in the poem to support an
> argument that VN's simply satirizing.
>
> I think, as best he could, VN imagined Shade, imagined
> a man of a particular time and place, endowed with
> certain talents as well as limitations; then, as that
> character, as Shade, VN wrote as good a poem as he--VN
> and Shade (VN as Shade)--was capable.  The result is
> some clunkiness and homeliness mixed with passages of
> real beauty and feeling.
>
> VN wrote this about Joyce and Ulysses:
>
> "... the frilly novelette parodies in the Masturbation
> scene are highly successful; and the sudden junction
> of its cliches with the fireworks and tender sky of
> real poetry is a feat of genius."
>
> I think this fairly describes what Nabokov is after
> with Shade:  his limitations as an artist as
> envisioned by VN are often and throughout transcended
> by the beauty he (Shade) is able to express when moved
> by his most genuine feelings.
>
>
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