Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0022493, Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:16:04 -0500

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Re: Nabokov and Twelve-Year-Old Girls ...
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In a message dated 2/27/2012 10:18:27 AM Central Standard Time,
jansy@AETERN.US writes:
> JM: I think this is a very good line of argumentation, considering Quilty
> "as an invention within the invention" (very much like Kinbote and Gradus)
> and the conclusion that Quilty's murder is figurative. Besides
> psychologically "exorcizing his own demon," he could be using other psychic defense
> mechanisms such as refusal, splitting, projection.
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So HH wrote the Foreword under the pseudonym of John Ray, Jr., Ph. D., and
then conveniently died in prison a few days before his trial for the
figurative murder of CQ? More meta- than this fiction needs, I think.

RSG

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