Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0020511, Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:07:57 EDT

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Re: from Ron Rosenbaum re VN's own words about the <Pale Fire>
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One more word on this. Nabokov's "ex ponto" is a clear allusion to
Virgil's Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea). Since Shade had
presumably never been on the Black Sea (Latin: ponto) but VN (and CK or VB)
presumably had, might VN not be saying that through the Index runs the theme of
exile? I.e., a "gentle wind" that both VN and CK share? But not JS.


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