tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post3723729751006665415..comments2024-03-28T15:01:12.582+00:00Comments on The little white attic : The Gift: Yasha’s death Hai Di Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-50645048228659712902018-01-20T08:57:49.242+00:002018-01-20T08:57:49.242+00:00Minor. LatH is like a final gift by the author to...Minor. <i>LatH</i> is like a final gift by the author to his fan club.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-29745025170499542342018-01-20T00:55:24.887+00:002018-01-20T00:55:24.887+00:00I won't read it until I've read almost eve...I won't read it until I've read almost everything else by Nabokov then. <br />Do you count it as one of his major or minor novels? Minor, I know, doesn't mean not good. <br />That bit is interesting. I don't have much to say.Hai Di Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-78967297156190102512018-01-19T15:56:39.017+00:002018-01-19T15:56:39.017+00:00Look at the Harlequins. It begins with a list of ...<i>Look at the Harlequins</i>. It begins with a list of the author's novels, each one of which is a parody of Nabokov's "real" novels. The narrator's life is a parody of the "real" Nabokov's. Probably incomprehensible to unsuspecting readers who do not know VN pretty well.<br /><br />In the mirror-autobiography, the subject looks the same, except everything is reversed. The right becomes the left. Distorted autobiography, upside-down autobiography. Alternate world autobiography. That's <i>Ada</i>, for example, which takes place on Antiterra, where even the planet's mountains have been moved around.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-16622140019206431132018-01-16T15:09:09.201+00:002018-01-16T15:09:09.201+00:00What does "mirror-autobiographies" mean?...What does "mirror-autobiographies" mean? <br />By last novel, do you mean <i>Look at the Harlequins!</i> or the unfinished <i>The Original of Laura</i>? <br />Hai Di Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-4611354457663732462018-01-15T13:06:52.200+00:002018-01-15T13:06:52.200+00:00Nabokov wrote a lot of mirror-autobiographies. Al...Nabokov wrote a lot of mirror-autobiographies. Alternate-world autobiographies. Versions of himself. His last novel is an outright self-parody. Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.com