Subject
Posthumous work? (re-sending an altered PS)
From
Date
Body
After I wrote about prof. Hurley's incapacity to see the unity of Pale Fire ( part of my commentary to S.Soloviev's posting), it occurred to me that Kinbote's foreword, with its reference to a Biblical "face to face" vision, might indicate that his entire collection of index-cards gave rise to a "posthumous" creation, indeed.
Hurley could only discern a scattered bunch of words with no guiding pattern whereas Kinbote was able to see Shade's poem as a perfectly finished and complete work. The clue ( "'in a glass, darkly" ) made me think that this "totality" could only be perceived after death ...
My reasoning here still follows CK's theory ( according to her, Shade was not killed but blended into Kinbote, took refuge somewhere, probably in a mental institution...), although I confess that her arguments still befuddle me ( contrary to MR,who wrote: I do like your observation about the editing problems shared by JS and CK", I confess that I cannot understand where these shared problems lie).
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Hurley could only discern a scattered bunch of words with no guiding pattern whereas Kinbote was able to see Shade's poem as a perfectly finished and complete work. The clue ( "'in a glass, darkly" ) made me think that this "totality" could only be perceived after death ...
My reasoning here still follows CK's theory ( according to her, Shade was not killed but blended into Kinbote, took refuge somewhere, probably in a mental institution...), although I confess that her arguments still befuddle me ( contrary to MR,who wrote: I do like your observation about the editing problems shared by JS and CK", I confess that I cannot understand where these shared problems lie).
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm