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Dear Jansy,
> Is it too far-fetched to suppose that Nabokov knew about
"anamorphosis"
> and, going a step further from Gogol and his pumpkin carriage (which
> Nabokov analysed in his Gogol Biography and also employed in "Ada") ,
> Nabokov twisted his transformations into something anamorphic?
Nabokov explicitely describes in the "Invitation to the beheading"
some kind of "puzzles" (I don't know how it is called in the
english translation, in russian it was called "netki", "net" means
"no") which included a strange shape and an equally strange curvy
mirror, such that only in this mirror you may see a beautiful
object instead of the strange thing.
Best,
Sergei
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> Is it too far-fetched to suppose that Nabokov knew about
"anamorphosis"
> and, going a step further from Gogol and his pumpkin carriage (which
> Nabokov analysed in his Gogol Biography and also employed in "Ada") ,
> Nabokov twisted his transformations into something anamorphic?
Nabokov explicitely describes in the "Invitation to the beheading"
some kind of "puzzles" (I don't know how it is called in the
english translation, in russian it was called "netki", "net" means
"no") which included a strange shape and an equally strange curvy
mirror, such that only in this mirror you may see a beautiful
object instead of the strange thing.
Best,
Sergei
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