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While searching for Nabokovian portraits, caricatures and maps, google-magic presented me to a site on "Nabokov's Infernos"with a quote in French from Roland Barthes, an epigraph on the Esthétique de l 'OULIPO and a promising many-authored initiative in its Flemish hop-scotch mood.
It's not that I demand a plot for bud or corpse, miss a good yarn, cry for a GPS..but because I revere an up-to-now ignored by me - and thereby unnamed -quality in words that I found lacking in these infernal texts, that the enterprise struck me to the heart.
The looks are so fashion so methinks the fault lies in myself, not in these shining stars.
Nab-L comments will be appreciated. There's always time to learn.
It's a year old sighting, almost to the dot and VN's birthday.
excerpts
(1): "The trio [or triptych or trilogy] Despair-Lolita-Pale Fire represents a three-pronged frog-gig of a sort of burlesque underkill (blue bolt of lightning reveals a green glistening body impaled and twitching on black mud: and bright red streaks and puddles of pumping blood) of the Divine Comedy [...]
These three main threads would be supplemented by supporting filaments detailing the heretofore unacknowledged "shame-seizure theme" in Nabokov's fiction-"A man having a lavish epileptic fit on the ground in Russian Gulch State Park" (Lolita, part two, chapter 2); "There was a sudden sunburst in my head ... The wonder lingers and the shame remains" (Pale Fire, lines 146 and 166); "... when the dearest being I know in this world meets me in the next and the arms I know stretch out to embrace me, I shall emit a yell of sheer horror, I shall collapse on the paradisian turf, writhing ..." (Despair, chapter 6);...the heretofore undiscovered importance of the "Pastoral Fallacy" (see Pale Fire, Commentary, note to line 137); the heretofore unsung reliance Nabokov had on paintings for constructing certain sequences, but not plots, in his fiction. "
(2) Roughly contemporaneous to the dream-source of our project, the oneiric beginning-root (îbtîda ra) of Nabokov's Infernos, three bifoliolate holographic specimens (graphite, ink, and coffee stains on 5/5 gridded papier velouté 90 g/m2, Clairefontaine réf. 572/2, copies doubles non perforées, 210 x 297 mm) extemporize a precipitate anyer irn of the subject's liminal forays into that tenuous decussation where the omnifarious plexure of promiscuous textuality interpenetrates with around into onto on top of below behind between etc.
Nabokov's Infernos: Îbtîda ra : 23 Apr 2010...Schizomythology, promiscuous textuality, plagiary by anticipation
« La mémoire de la littérature marche ainsi tout naturellement à reculons, chaque texte venant s'éclairer de la lecture d'autres qui lui sont pourtant postérieurs. » (H. Le Tellier, Esthétique de L'Oulipo. Bordeaux, Le Castor Astral, 2006: 174.)
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It's not that I demand a plot for bud or corpse, miss a good yarn, cry for a GPS..but because I revere an up-to-now ignored by me - and thereby unnamed -quality in words that I found lacking in these infernal texts, that the enterprise struck me to the heart.
The looks are so fashion so methinks the fault lies in myself, not in these shining stars.
Nab-L comments will be appreciated. There's always time to learn.
It's a year old sighting, almost to the dot and VN's birthday.
excerpts
(1): "The trio [or triptych or trilogy] Despair-Lolita-Pale Fire represents a three-pronged frog-gig of a sort of burlesque underkill (blue bolt of lightning reveals a green glistening body impaled and twitching on black mud: and bright red streaks and puddles of pumping blood) of the Divine Comedy [...]
These three main threads would be supplemented by supporting filaments detailing the heretofore unacknowledged "shame-seizure theme" in Nabokov's fiction-"A man having a lavish epileptic fit on the ground in Russian Gulch State Park" (Lolita, part two, chapter 2); "There was a sudden sunburst in my head ... The wonder lingers and the shame remains" (Pale Fire, lines 146 and 166); "... when the dearest being I know in this world meets me in the next and the arms I know stretch out to embrace me, I shall emit a yell of sheer horror, I shall collapse on the paradisian turf, writhing ..." (Despair, chapter 6);...the heretofore undiscovered importance of the "Pastoral Fallacy" (see Pale Fire, Commentary, note to line 137); the heretofore unsung reliance Nabokov had on paintings for constructing certain sequences, but not plots, in his fiction. "
(2) Roughly contemporaneous to the dream-source of our project, the oneiric beginning-root (îbtîda ra) of Nabokov's Infernos, three bifoliolate holographic specimens (graphite, ink, and coffee stains on 5/5 gridded papier velouté 90 g/m2, Clairefontaine réf. 572/2, copies doubles non perforées, 210 x 297 mm) extemporize a precipitate anyer irn of the subject's liminal forays into that tenuous decussation where the omnifarious plexure of promiscuous textuality interpenetrates with around into onto on top of below behind between etc.
Nabokov's Infernos: Îbtîda ra : 23 Apr 2010...Schizomythology, promiscuous textuality, plagiary by anticipation
« La mémoire de la littérature marche ainsi tout naturellement à reculons, chaque texte venant s'éclairer de la lecture d'autres qui lui sont pourtant postérieurs. » (H. Le Tellier, Esthétique de L'Oulipo. Bordeaux, Le Castor Astral, 2006: 174.)
nabokovsinfernos.blogspot.com/2010/04/ibtida-ra.html -
Nabokov's Infernos: April 2010 -
nabokovsinfernos.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html
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