''Vladimir Nabokov's Comic Quest for Reality' - Nottingham eTheses

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NOTES to DESPAIR
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. Vladimir Nabokov, Despair, (Weidenfeld
21966).
and Nicolson,
London,
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Vladimir Nabokov, Foreword, Despair, p. 9.
Wayne C. 9ooth, The Rhetoric of Fiction, (Chicago,
London, 1968), p. 206.
"A good word, that! Ornate, but good... ", p. 39.
"Rather bulky imagery this. ", p. 14.
"What a pun! ", p. 79.
"I note for my own pleasure the smooth run of that
sentence. ", p. 42.
"... that rhythm is foreign to modern speech, but
it renders, especially well, my epic calm and the
dramatic tension of the situation. ", p. 163.
"Don't quite see why I write in this vein. ", p. 14.
"At this point... it is meet, I presume, that I
should bid my prose stand at ease... ", p. 18.
"Let me interrupt this passage, too,... ", p. 76.
"A very slight digression of a literary nature... ",
p. 163.
"One fine day at last Lydia joined me abroad... ",
pp. 188ff.
"I at last found Lydia, who was hiding from me and
who now coolly declared that... she had got the
inheritance all right and was going to marry another
man, 'because, you see,... you are dead. ", p. 209.
,,.., it may happen that in five years or so with the
aid of some timely amnesty, I shall return to
Berlin and manufacture chocolate all over again. ",
p. 220.
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"I have got muddled somehow... ", p. 41.
"Sorry, there was really no snake; it was just my
fancy borrowing from Tsar Peter... ", p. 78.
"No, that's wrong. Cancelled. ", p. 199.
"Ought to be corrected, were it not wicked to
erase; for the real author is not I bVt my impatient
memory. ", p. 47.
"These conversations with readers are quite silly
too. Stage asides. The eloquent hiss: 'Soft now!
Someone is coming... '", p. 64.
14 Wayne C. Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction, pp. 224-240.