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³his father thought the idea that either Shade or Kinbote could have
invented the other barely less absurd than the idea that each could have
invented the other..."
That VN considered the idea of either of his characters inventing the other
to be absurd is not the same as VN¹s ridiculing the idea, which is something
VN is much more likely to have done to the idea that he would base one of
his more complex American novels on a rather simple thriller by an English
novelist who, though possessed of decided abilities, did not possess
abilities nearly as remarkable as Nabokov¹s own.
Andrew Brown
On 8/27/06 4:05 PM, "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
> The idea that Shade or Kinbote is the inventor of the other is another theory
> entirely, a theory that Nabokov himself ridiculed.
>
> Dear Dmitri,
>
> By a stroke of luck, I have found it. The source was yourself, as referenced
> in Boyd's "Magic of Artistic Discovery" book on page 115:
>>
>> "Dmitri Nabokov, the novelist's son and translator, joined the Internet
>> discussion with his recollection that his father thought the idea that either
>> Shade or Kinbote could have invented the other barely less absurd than the
>> idea that each could have invented the other..."
>
> A footnote provides the source as Nabokov-L, January 8, 1998.
>
> Carolyn
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