Nabokov

Simon Bryquer sbryquer at nyc.rr.com
Sun Dec 14 13:07:07 CST 2014


The Real Life of Sebastian Knight  was written in 1939 and published in 
1949 -- are you saying V (published in 1963)influenced  The Real Life of 
Sebastian Knight ?

Simon Bryquer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
To: "Perry Noid" <coolwithdoc at gmail.com>
Cc: "Keith Davis" <kbob42 at gmail.com>; "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: Nabokov


>I might second but I believe in some bit of time passing (usually)
> between reads...so I say listen to  JEREMY IRONS read Lolita to
> ya....PNIN is fun and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight had V.
> influence....(you'll see)......Despair, the chess one is good on the
> paranoia of over patterning....and a consequence....then reread PALE
> FIRE which you would have read and Speak, Memory is another
> essential....
>
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Ooh! Well if I can make a suggestion; read Lolita again, then read pale 
>> fire
>> twice in a row. In my very green and humble opinion, Nabokov begs to be
>> double-dipped. Last one I read was Speak, Memory but Ada, or Ardour is
>> allegedly the one I should read next according to my friend's father the
>> English professor.
>>
>> On Dec 14, 2014 9:44 AM, "Keith Davis" <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just finished reading "Lolita" for the first time. What a great  read!
>>> Don't know why it took so long to get to it, other than to look around 
>>> at
>>> the stacks of as yet unread books lying around waiting to be
>>> "deflowered"....!
>>>
>>> Someone was recently recommending "Pale Fire". Any other particular
>>> recommendations?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>
>>
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