Vladimir Nabokov

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C.Kunin: Jansy will appreciate that the original Cupid and Psyche story appeared first in Apuleius's odd novel (a new translation gets a starred review in the current TLS) usually called "The Golden Ass(e)", but properly called the Metamorphosis. [ ]Ovid like Dante and VN suffered exile, but I don't recall any Nabokovian references to that either. Some of us will recall that Dmitri used the Dantean Can Grande in his email address to refer to that man's exile and the family connection of which he and his father were both proud.

Jansy Mello Thanks, CK for the information that had already been mentioned in another posting to the VN-L (sometimes I have the impression that you don't read the entire message you decide to comment). There were several exchanges about the link between Nabokov and Ovid while discussing his poem in "Speak,Memory" (the reference to ex-Ponto").You can easily google the List.

Internet magic found me not only a precise wording for ex-Ponto (sparing me this effort) but enriched it with information about a book on "Metamorphoses in Russian Modernism" that will surely interest you. Here it is:
[ ] "The words "a couple of inseparable birches grew there (or a couple of couples, if you conunted their reflections)" in Despair (Nabokov, 1937,46) could be an allusion to Ovid's tale of Baucis and Philemon, the two old dears changed into a pair of intertwining trees[ ] (Metamorphoses, 8.611-724). The inventor of the automannequins in King,Queen,Knave may owe something to Ovid's Pygmalion...while the landlord Enricht, who thinks he can metamorphose himself into "all kinds of creatures - ..."(Nabokov,1968,99), is one of the author's manu Proteus figures: the "stage manager" of Albinus' suffering ...[ ] What matters more than putative specificities, however, is the recognition that Nabokov is an "Ovidian" writer, that through his oeuvre, as he said about the Index to Speak,Memory, "sometimes a gentle wind ex/Ponto blows" (Nabokov, 1967,16)
Cf. Metamorphoses in Russian Modernism - Página 68 - Resultado da pesquisa de livros do Google
books.google.com.br/books?isbn=9639116912 - Traduzir esta página
Peter I. Barta - 2000 - Literary Criticism

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