NABOKV-L discussion

I personally find the idea of "cancel culture" pretty regressive (adults swept into peer trends) but anyway beyond the headline this does get into some depth:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/books/review/lolita-obscenity-cancel-culture-emily-mortimer.html

I want to add to my previous post (http://thenabokovian.org/node/52191) a brief chart I made demonstrating many of the similarities between Pale Fire and Finnegans Wake (attached). My suggestion, as above, is that it seems possible that VN was influenced by Northrup Frye’s acclaims of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, and purposely plagiarized the themes and motifs, possibly as parody or as a demonstration of how the same could be employed in a novel that is actually readable on a number of literary levels.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannons_(house): "...Alexander Pope was unjustly accused of having represented the house as 'Timon's Villa' in his Epistle of Taste (1731).[5]"

[the note 5] Pope confided to Lord Burlington "that character of Timon is collected from twenty different absurditys and improprieties: and never was the picture of any one human creature"; quoted in James Lees-Milne, The Earls of Creation, :148...

 

Does anyone have any information about the Field archive - in Life and Art of VN notes suggest that Field has a personal archive including letters from Nabokov to his mother, Nabokov's 1952 diary, a hand-written letter to Samuil Rosov from 1937 and 'notebooks'? 

Hi, all! Has there ever been any indication that Nabokov read or at even heard of Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale (1928)?

For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. There are not many such books.

by Gerard de Vries

Pale Fire is quoted in the lede and referred to again in the close of a review of Larry Tye's Demagogue: The life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy, by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, in the Times Literary Supplement of Dec 11 2020.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/demagogue-larry-tye-book-review-joseph-mccarthy/

The fictional author of LATH, Vadim, is raised by a kooky grand-aunt, Baroness Bredow who exhorts him to:

‘Look at the Harlequins…Come on! Play! Invent the world! Invent reality’

 

The ‘Pale Fire’ quotations Kinbote uses in his commentary headers intrigue me. 

Some he ends with an et cetera (eg ‘Lines 1-4: I was the shadow of the waxwing slain, etc.’):

• C.1-4, C.39-40, C.90-93, C.120-121, C.162, C.167, C.231, C.417-421, C.597-608, C.609-614, C.704-707, C.835-838, C.939-940, C.993-905.

I wonder why the single-line references used in C.162, C.167 and C.231 have etcs instead of simply quoting the full line (as he does in C.57, C.130, C.286, C.549, C.596, C.662)?