Nabokov's Signs and Symbols

[Mark Kohut]

1948.  A Perfect Day For Bananafish published in New Yorker.      Given a+ by VN
            The Lottery.   Published in NYorker
                                   Recently read stuff about internal readings of
      1947        Cheever's  the enormous radio


This Nabokov reminded me most -not that there are not other associations--of his novel The Defense, the chess genius seeing patterns everywhere and dying into one. 

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> On Apr 23, 2017, at 9:00 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Nabokov's first story published in the New Yorker in 1948 is a tiny
> little piece that seems to me very relevant to readers of Pynchon.
> http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/05/15/symbols-and-signs
> He told the fiction editor that “a second (main) story is woven into,
> or placed behind, the superficial semitransparent one,” although from
> my reading this could be a tease, since there's such a heavy
> metafictional layer exploring our tendencies to "project a world"
> (COL49) when we're reading. Plus it tied in neatly to the discussion
> of weather in books had here recently, and Nabokov might be satirising
> the idea that climate is a conspiracy based on our mood.
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