Nabokov's Signs and symbols

[John Bailey]

Your link to the Cheever had me thinking the same thing. I can't
recall if Murakami translated Cheever but his short stories have a
similar rhythm. And one of his famous stories is A Good Day for
Kangaroos, which goes back to the Salinger.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> And there is a good Murakami story that I would bet a jar of jelly on this influenced. The existential phone calls one.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> 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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