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Sally McHale: "I am sending this message because this book fulfills the "relevant to Nabokov studies" description. It may require dialing your Naboko-scopes to a low magnification. Forgive me for recycling if it has already come to your attention. The book- Fort Da is published by FC2, ( www.fc2.org) an imprint ( ?) of the University of Alabama Press, 2009. Notations are: 1. Neurologists-Fiction; 2. Americans-Germany- Fiction; 3. Boys-Fiction; 4. Cypriots-Germany-Fiction; 5. Psychological fiction; 6. Experimental Fiction.
Elizabeth Sheffield, the author, teaches at The Creative Writing Program at The University of Colorado in Boulder. The book ( Finally!) - Fort Da has bold, perhaps crude, Nabokov (ian) style and content. I found it wildly imaginative ( blind waiters, Schlafzentrum) and absurdly funny. I am no scholar, but do have aspirations of understanding and enjoying Nabokov. Enjoying comes more naturally to me. Fort Da was enjoyable. I wonder what you all will think of and will find in this book. I think it worthy, which is what emboldened me to actually "participate" in this listserv."
JM: Freud again? "Fort Da" is a famous pair of words which were first mentioned by S.Freud, in "Beyond the Pleasure Principle."
His baby grandson was playing in his crib with a spool of thread that his mother Sophie had attached to a ribbon. He would throw the spool out from the crib and scream OOOOOOOO, next he would pull it back and, happily yell: AAAAAAA.
Freud understood the sounds he made to mean "Fort (gone)" and "Da (here it/she is)".
He related it to an attempt to overcome traumatic situations ( mother's absence) by acquiring control over her disapparances, through symbolization ( the spool and the words). The story is more elaborate, but worth reading it in Freud. His daughter died a few years later and he mentions this fact in the saddest little footnote I ever read (also in BPP).
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Elizabeth Sheffield, the author, teaches at The Creative Writing Program at The University of Colorado in Boulder. The book ( Finally!) - Fort Da has bold, perhaps crude, Nabokov (ian) style and content. I found it wildly imaginative ( blind waiters, Schlafzentrum) and absurdly funny. I am no scholar, but do have aspirations of understanding and enjoying Nabokov. Enjoying comes more naturally to me. Fort Da was enjoyable. I wonder what you all will think of and will find in this book. I think it worthy, which is what emboldened me to actually "participate" in this listserv."
JM: Freud again? "Fort Da" is a famous pair of words which were first mentioned by S.Freud, in "Beyond the Pleasure Principle."
His baby grandson was playing in his crib with a spool of thread that his mother Sophie had attached to a ribbon. He would throw the spool out from the crib and scream OOOOOOOO, next he would pull it back and, happily yell: AAAAAAA.
Freud understood the sounds he made to mean "Fort (gone)" and "Da (here it/she is)".
He related it to an attempt to overcome traumatic situations ( mother's absence) by acquiring control over her disapparances, through symbolization ( the spool and the words). The story is more elaborate, but worth reading it in Freud. His daughter died a few years later and he mentions this fact in the saddest little footnote I ever read (also in BPP).
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