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plot in VN
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EDITOR NOTE. See end
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>
>From: OZMA@webtv.net
> does anyone ever
>give him credit for the masterful storytelling he did? it seems everyone
>is lost in his irony, themes, and symbolism and are totally disregarding
>his plots which were the first thing that grabbed me!
at the risk of possibly seeming immodest, my own studies of
his short fictions [which appeared on NABOKV-L] focussed
attention on this very point - his skills at manipulating
the conventions of story-telling to produce marvellous effects
--
Roy Johnson
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EDITOR's COMMENT. British Nabokovian Roy Johnson's studies of virtually
all of VN's short fiction ran serially on NABOKV-L (roughly) in 1994 and
are available in the NABOKV-L Archive under the subject heading "RJ:[story
title].
---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
>From: OZMA@webtv.net
> does anyone ever
>give him credit for the masterful storytelling he did? it seems everyone
>is lost in his irony, themes, and symbolism and are totally disregarding
>his plots which were the first thing that grabbed me!
at the risk of possibly seeming immodest, my own studies of
his short fictions [which appeared on NABOKV-L] focussed
attention on this very point - his skills at manipulating
the conventions of story-telling to produce marvellous effects
--
Roy Johnson
-----------------------------------------------------
EDITOR's COMMENT. British Nabokovian Roy Johnson's studies of virtually
all of VN's short fiction ran serially on NABOKV-L (roughly) in 1994 and
are available in the NABOKV-L Archive under the subject heading "RJ:[story
title].