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Re: Rilke (fwd)
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EDITOR'S NOTE. BETH SWEENEY <SWEENEY@hcacad.holycross.edu> replies to
Nassim Berdjis' query re Rilke's "Panther."
Just for the record, in response to Charles' reply, I was that somebody
(who attempted in vain to document the influence of Rilke's "Der
Panther" on LOLITA). I never did find any conclusive evidence. Since
then, however, it has also occurred to me that VN may have also had in
mind the imitative Ourang-Outang in Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue,"
which ends up, I believe, in the Jardin des Plantes. (Poe's influence,
of course, is much easier to document!)
-- Beth Sweeney
Nassim Berdjis' query re Rilke's "Panther."
Just for the record, in response to Charles' reply, I was that somebody
(who attempted in vain to document the influence of Rilke's "Der
Panther" on LOLITA). I never did find any conclusive evidence. Since
then, however, it has also occurred to me that VN may have also had in
mind the imitative Ourang-Outang in Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue,"
which ends up, I believe, in the Jardin des Plantes. (Poe's influence,
of course, is much easier to document!)
-- Beth Sweeney