NPPF Comm 2: Dr. Notebook

[David Morris]

--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/kaplan1.htm

Having only skimmed this article, understanding Botkin to be the uber-author of
Pale Fire, a fictional third, hidden (mostly) character who wrote both poem and
commentary, and who invented both Shade and Kinbote (and Charles), I have to
admit I'm left unsatasfied (like Keith, but not necesarily for the same
reasons), but not necesarily unconvinced.  This uber-author is essentially
Nabokov himself, once removed into a novel.  But does this fancy footwork
relieve the author of responsibility to make "his" fictional world complete in
its own right?  If this reading is correct, it should only be a lesser game
inside the bigger nut we're trying to crack, IMHO.

David Morris

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