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By coincidence a Brazilian Lit. teacher has published an article online
about Machado de Assis, Borges, Calvino and Nabokov where she quotes little
Jack Horners pie in relation to Kinbote.
I havent yet read it in full but, if it happens to be interesting, Ill
translate parts of it for the List in the near future.
She writes: ". Por mais bondoso ou malvado que seja, Little Jack Horner não
poderá cometer nenhuma peraltice se não houver uma torta à sua frente,
provocando-lhe tais instintos.
Por isso, o professor Charles Kinbote, no romance de Nabokov, induz com
tanta insistência o poeta Shade a escrever o texto que será objeto de sua
análise. - Ermelinda Ferreira, 2005
http://www.plataforma.paraapoesia.nom.br/ermelinda_ensaios.htm
Translation:
Cruel or good-hearted, Little Jack Horner wont be able to pursue his
pranks if there is no pie in front of him to provoke such instincts.// This
is why professor Charles Kinbote, in Nabokovs novel, insistently prompts
the poet John Shade to have him write the text thatll become the object of
his analysis
Coincidences are fun: Pale Fire as Jack Horners pie!
(or as the body of proof in a crime story).
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about Machado de Assis, Borges, Calvino and Nabokov where she quotes little
Jack Horners pie in relation to Kinbote.
I havent yet read it in full but, if it happens to be interesting, Ill
translate parts of it for the List in the near future.
She writes: ". Por mais bondoso ou malvado que seja, Little Jack Horner não
poderá cometer nenhuma peraltice se não houver uma torta à sua frente,
provocando-lhe tais instintos.
Por isso, o professor Charles Kinbote, no romance de Nabokov, induz com
tanta insistência o poeta Shade a escrever o texto que será objeto de sua
análise. - Ermelinda Ferreira, 2005
http://www.plataforma.paraapoesia.nom.br/ermelinda_ensaios.htm
Translation:
Cruel or good-hearted, Little Jack Horner wont be able to pursue his
pranks if there is no pie in front of him to provoke such instincts.// This
is why professor Charles Kinbote, in Nabokovs novel, insistently prompts
the poet John Shade to have him write the text thatll become the object of
his analysis
Coincidences are fun: Pale Fire as Jack Horners pie!
(or as the body of proof in a crime story).
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
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