For Tomorrow
Hi everyone,
It certainly is a pleasure to read about your admiration of and enthusiasm for Nabokov’s writing. Your posts provide a great mix of responses to the various complex literary devices he has employed so brilliantly, and I am looking forward to tomorrow’s discussion—and potential debates! The documents for this week provide a telling cultural backdrop for the time period and we see a number of their key ideas and attitudes about normal or deviant sexuality expressed in the novel, though often obliquely or ironically. They help us grasp some of the novel’s humor around issues of sex education and psychological therapy as well as the poignancy of the period’s oppressive attitudes and practices.
Here is a possible order to direct our discussion:
Vita leading us through examples of the elaborate word play.
Tal on the relationships between HH and Quilty and the concept of fate.
Colby on the psychoanalytic implications (as diagnosis and as the brunt of Nabokov’s ridicule).
Whitney on the question of created reality (does HH’s solipsism extend to our perceptions?)
See you tomorrow!
See you tomorrow! Lee
