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Joseph Aisenberg wrote: but these kinds of speculations somehow never
resolve themselves. I'm curious, what would be the point of that sort
of double-personality game--is it a post modern joke on readers who
lose themselves in the illusion of discreet characters that simply
derive from one brain, or is it just a fun stunt?
Dear Joseph,
I ;m not sure why you say these kinds of speculations never resolve
themselves. They usually do (except in post modern gibberish). My own
speculation is that Nabokov wished to write or rather re-write Jekyll
and Hyde for a modern audience and that he wrote it in the form of a
puzzle. It makes sense to me because although in his lecture on
J&H,
VN asks his students to forget everything they have ever heard, seen
or read about that famous pair, he knew this was really impossible.
Jekyll and Hyde had long entered the language and could not be
obliterated.
Carolyn