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Re: QUERY: VN on time in Tolstoy
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Irina, SES, an all,
Timofey Pnin discourses on Tolstoy's both coordinating fictional and
historical time, but also allowing the two romances to proceed in
parallel using different chronometry. This alerts the reader to
Pnin's significant scholarship in contrast to the narrator's
demeaning opinions.
I have suggested [Zembla, "Arbitrary Signs and Symbols"] that
Nabokov wished his readers to discover the exact historical date of
the pointedly unspecified fictional Friday on which the story
unfolds, and that this discovery is central to the story.
-Sandy Drescher
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Timofey Pnin discourses on Tolstoy's both coordinating fictional and
historical time, but also allowing the two romances to proceed in
parallel using different chronometry. This alerts the reader to
Pnin's significant scholarship in contrast to the narrator's
demeaning opinions.
I have suggested [Zembla, "Arbitrary Signs and Symbols"] that
Nabokov wished his readers to discover the exact historical date of
the pointedly unspecified fictional Friday on which the story
unfolds, and that this discovery is central to the story.
-Sandy Drescher
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