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Dear Carolyn,
I havent checked it but I trust my memory in this case. The uncle was
leafing through a collection of books from the Bibliothèque Rose (for
young ladies, I think, at least the Brazilian edition is called Coleção
Menina e Moça, but from where Les Desastres de Sophie are absent)
De: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] Em nome de
Carolyn Kunin
Enviada em: quarta-feira, 23 de abril de 2014 13:45
Para: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Assunto: Re: [NABOKV-L] BIRTHDAY: Many happy returns (in Speak, Memory)
Dear SES,
But that gloating uncle - what kind of a book would he be gloating over? it
does seem as if a snake is lurking already in the garden.
Carolyn
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Subject: [NABOKV-L] BIRTHDAY: Many happy returns (in Speak, Memory)
Happy Birthday, Vladimir Vladimirovich!
And speaking of happiness, a theme that I propose that we also celebrate
today, here's one of my favorite passages from Speak, Memory:
I see again my schoolroom in Vyra,the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open
window. Its reflection fills the oval mirror above the leathern couch where
my uncle sits, gloating over a tattered book. A sense of security, of
well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes
a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has
entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should
be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.
I love the mirror that reflects the window, brimming with brightness, and
the bumping bumblebee (as well as the alliterative b's that suggest its
sound). Those sweeping statements at the end ("everything is," "nothing
will ever," "nobody will ever") are for me the very essence of how happiness
feels -- even as their wistful untruth poignantly suggests its limitation.
:) SES
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Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Co-Editor, NABOKV-L
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I havent checked it but I trust my memory in this case. The uncle was
leafing through a collection of books from the Bibliothèque Rose (for
young ladies, I think, at least the Brazilian edition is called Coleção
Menina e Moça, but from where Les Desastres de Sophie are absent)
De: Vladimir Nabokov Forum [mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU] Em nome de
Carolyn Kunin
Enviada em: quarta-feira, 23 de abril de 2014 13:45
Para: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Assunto: Re: [NABOKV-L] BIRTHDAY: Many happy returns (in Speak, Memory)
Dear SES,
But that gloating uncle - what kind of a book would he be gloating over? it
does seem as if a snake is lurking already in the garden.
Carolyn
_____
From: "NABOKV-L, English" < <mailto:nabokv-l@HOLYCROSS.EDU>
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Subject: [NABOKV-L] BIRTHDAY: Many happy returns (in Speak, Memory)
Happy Birthday, Vladimir Vladimirovich!
And speaking of happiness, a theme that I propose that we also celebrate
today, here's one of my favorite passages from Speak, Memory:
I see again my schoolroom in Vyra,the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open
window. Its reflection fills the oval mirror above the leathern couch where
my uncle sits, gloating over a tattered book. A sense of security, of
well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes
a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has
entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should
be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.
I love the mirror that reflects the window, brimming with brightness, and
the bumping bumblebee (as well as the alliterative b's that suggest its
sound). Those sweeping statements at the end ("everything is," "nothing
will ever," "nobody will ever") are for me the very essence of how happiness
feels -- even as their wistful untruth poignantly suggests its limitation.
:) SES
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Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Co-Editor, NABOKV-L
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