Pairings in Nabokov and Pynchon

[Malignd]

<<"It is always tempting to see Nabokov's paired
characters (Kinbote and Shade, Humbert and Quilty, Van
and Ada) as opposing sides of a single, divided self,
and to read the novels in which the paired characters
appear as attempts to fuse this divided self into a
psychological whole. ...  [AND MORE]>>

No personal criticism intended toward your posting
what the above was snipped from, but it's a pretty
shallow bit of commentary, don't you think?  Two
poles, public/private, objective/subjective,
outer/inner (and inner/outer),
distillation/reconciliation ... Did I (did she) leave
anything out? 

<<In Nabokov's terms, one of the chief values of art
is that because it is fundamentally metaphoric it is
able to speak of two things at once ...>>

Duh.  How does stuff like this get published?





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