Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0010161, Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:52:34 -0700

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VN's synaesthesia for Blue (fwd)
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Question:
What is the color blue associated with in VN's works? Shade of blue are
predominant in RLSK. All help appreciated.

-Sandy Drescher


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EDNOTE. In VN-s color letter correspondences the blue group includes the
"steely x," "thudercloud z, and huckleberry k. Q is "somewhat browner than
k, while s is not the light blue of c, but a curious mixture of azure and
mother of pearl." _SP, Memory_ II, 1. For Cyrillic correspondences, see
Drugie berega.
I, incidentally, published the first study of VN's synaethesia and its
implications for the writer. See chpater I of my _Worlds in Regression._
But to answer your question---I do not know that "blue" has a general
"meaning" in VN or in RLSKn. Might repeat looking into.


D. Barton Johnson
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