Nabokov

Simon Bryquer sbryquer at nyc.rr.com
Sun Dec 14 13:13:05 CST 2014


CORRECTION - Sebastian Knight was 1st published in 1941

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Bryquer" <sbryquer at nyc.rr.com>
To: "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com>; "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 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: Nabokov


> 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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