Subject:
Re:
{Sighting] Berlin after Nabokov
Date:
25 September
2015 11:13:30 am GMT+1
I meant to bring Gail Jones’s novel to the attention of Nablers, but
have been too busy and distracted; thanks to Jansy for her
unintended prompt. To someone who loves Nabokov more and knows his
work better than the snide reviewer below, it’s a fascinating read,
especially in the early sections as the Nabokov enthusiasts prove
their credentials to one another. The novel’s language, imagery and
perceptions are rich in themselves and laden with deft homages to
Nabokov, in a kind of See What the Sailor Has Hidden way. The text
is saturated with A Guide to Berlin itself, with Speak, Memory, and
much much more, and it’s a fine guide to modern Berlin in winter,
and modern cosmopolitanism.
Brian Boyd