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Alexey Sklyarenko sends: "Nabokov's Anthropomorphic Zoo: The Leporine Family of Doctors in Ada" is now available in Zembla (in Word format): http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/krolik.doc
JM: I selected two excerpts from your delectable article, related to items which might (or might not) be worth inquiring into:
1. "...and the Russian 'zayats' (hare) sounds like 'Seitz' (the German gynecologist); there is a Latin 'cuniculus' in 'Niculin' ('grandson of the great rodentiologist Kunikulinov'), and a Greek 'lagos' in 'Lagosse' (the doctor who attends Van in his old age). Note also Coniglietto, the Italian cancer-of-the-blood specialist."
2. "There are no flying islands in Jules Verne (the author of The Mysterious Island, 1874), but there is Laputa, the Flying Island, in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726). In Ada, Laputa is a freight airplane on which Ada's two maids fly over from America to Europe with Ada's trunks (Part Four). As to Swift's hero (who is a naval surgeon), Van mentions him, along with a fat little Russian encyclopedia and guba, describing his and Ada's kissing phase ..."
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'. You conected the name Lagosse, thru V.D, to "lagos" (Greek). In French, a young kid is "un gosse" and I wonder if this meaning was ambiguously intended by senescent Van's doctor's name, "La-gosse."
2. Swift's "Laputa" (and Lilliput) might not be maliciously considered but, in Van's mind, another meaning may have been accrued to Ada's kissing phase in "La-puta" (in Portuguese and in Spanish, "puta" indicates a prostitute)
Thank you for the link, your article is extremely rich with associations, information and links to literature and words.
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JM: I selected two excerpts from your delectable article, related to items which might (or might not) be worth inquiring into:
1. "...and the Russian 'zayats' (hare) sounds like 'Seitz' (the German gynecologist); there is a Latin 'cuniculus' in 'Niculin' ('grandson of the great rodentiologist Kunikulinov'), and a Greek 'lagos' in 'Lagosse' (the doctor who attends Van in his old age). Note also Coniglietto, the Italian cancer-of-the-blood specialist."
2. "There are no flying islands in Jules Verne (the author of The Mysterious Island, 1874), but there is Laputa, the Flying Island, in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726). In Ada, Laputa is a freight airplane on which Ada's two maids fly over from America to Europe with Ada's trunks (Part Four). As to Swift's hero (who is a naval surgeon), Van mentions him, along with a fat little Russian encyclopedia and guba, describing his and Ada's kissing phase ..."
The questions:
'. You conected the name Lagosse, thru V.D, to "lagos" (Greek). In French, a young kid is "un gosse" and I wonder if this meaning was ambiguously intended by senescent Van's doctor's name, "La-gosse."
2. Swift's "Laputa" (and Lilliput) might not be maliciously considered but, in Van's mind, another meaning may have been accrued to Ada's kissing phase in "La-puta" (in Portuguese and in Spanish, "puta" indicates a prostitute)
Thank you for the link, your article is extremely rich with associations, information and links to literature and words.
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/