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Re: Quote Query ID: Painterly novels/novelistic painting... (fwd)
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RE: Query about a passage from Nabokov in which he compares writing to
painting. Nabokov points out that (unlike in the case of a novel) one's
sense of a painting's overall structure is immediate.
A friend wants to use this idea in a review of the new Solzhenitsyn
(believe it or not). But where is it from? I'm thinking the lectures...?
But which one...?
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>From "Good Readers and Good Writers" (Lectures on Literature 3):
The paragraph begins "Incidentally, I use the word reader very loosely"
and includes (but does not stop at) the description below.
"When we look at a painting we do not have to move our eyes in a special
way even if, as in a book, the picture contains elements of depth and
development. The element of time does not really enter in a first contact
with a painting."
BW
Brian Walter
6016 Washington Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63112-1410
(314) 725-6678
bdwalter@artsci.wustl.edu
painting. Nabokov points out that (unlike in the case of a novel) one's
sense of a painting's overall structure is immediate.
A friend wants to use this idea in a review of the new Solzhenitsyn
(believe it or not). But where is it from? I'm thinking the lectures...?
But which one...?
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>From "Good Readers and Good Writers" (Lectures on Literature 3):
The paragraph begins "Incidentally, I use the word reader very loosely"
and includes (but does not stop at) the description below.
"When we look at a painting we do not have to move our eyes in a special
way even if, as in a book, the picture contains elements of depth and
development. The element of time does not really enter in a first contact
with a painting."
BW
Brian Walter
6016 Washington Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63112-1410
(314) 725-6678
bdwalter@artsci.wustl.edu