Nabokov's Signs and symbols

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah,,,,just taught a couple of these in my short stories class.....

Adult ed, they kinda liked contrasting Bananafish w Kangaroos.....

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:37 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >> -
> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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