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Nabokov quite liked Cheever's story "The Country Husband," and twice paid
homage to it: in an essay on inspiration and in "Ada." I don't see a
Cheever-Shade connection, however. Cheever wrote rich, vigorous and
beautifully-crafted prose, but so did a number of writers in the last half
of the 20th Century, and they don't sound any more like Shade than he did.
Rodney Welch
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Nabokv-L <nabokv-l@utk.edu> wrote:
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> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Johns Cheever and Shade Date:
> Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:18:00 -0700 From: Carolyn Kunin
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> Just a little observation touching on John Shade and suppressed
> homosexuality. I opened the paper this morning to find an article on
> John Cheever and it made me think how very similar Cheever and Shade
> are as writers. I don't know enough about Cheever's homosexuality
> myself to comment on that side, and I'm pretty sure Nabokov could not
> have known about it, but there is a very strong similarity of tone
> between Cheever's stories (at least as I remember them) and Shade's
> poem.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Carolyn
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homage to it: in an essay on inspiration and in "Ada." I don't see a
Cheever-Shade connection, however. Cheever wrote rich, vigorous and
beautifully-crafted prose, but so did a number of writers in the last half
of the 20th Century, and they don't sound any more like Shade than he did.
Rodney Welch
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Nabokv-L <nabokv-l@utk.edu> wrote:
>
>
> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Johns Cheever and Shade Date:
> Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:18:00 -0700 From: Carolyn Kunin
> <chaiselongue@earthlink.net> <chaiselongue@earthlink.net> To: Vladimir
> Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU> <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> -
> Just a little observation touching on John Shade and suppressed
> homosexuality. I opened the paper this morning to find an article on
> John Cheever and it made me think how very similar Cheever and Shade
> are as writers. I don't know enough about Cheever's homosexuality
> myself to comment on that side, and I'm pretty sure Nabokov could not
> have known about it, but there is a very strong similarity of tone
> between Cheever's stories (at least as I remember them) and Shade's
> poem.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Carolyn
>
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