Round and Flat

[Steven]

	Speaking of Nabokov -- there are any number of flat characters in  
his works, too many to mention, esp. in some of his Russian novels,  
and they're very entertaining for the most part.  I would except the  
Invitation to a Beheading dude -- feh.  But I agree with Bekah in  
this:  it's not a function of volume of pages devoted to a character,  
or 'screentime' in the case of movies.  Ada and Van are flat, imo.   
And they live in a huge wonderful novel.  A few years later he wrote  
Transparent Things, in which he starts with a seemingly flat creation  
-- Hugh Person -- but in the space of less than a hundred pages the  
paper doll assumes a very human visage and rich interior life.


On Nov 4, 2006, at 11:12 PM, bekah wrote:

>  It's easy to see what he means with the characters of Tolstoy and  
> Dickens but in Nabokov and Pynchon?

Steven



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