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From: "Julian W. Connolly" <jwc4w@virginia.edu>
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> I briefly discuss the story "Wingstroke" in my article "Nabokov's Approach
> to the Supernatural in the Early Stories," in the volume "Torpid Smoke:
The
> Stories of Vladimir Nabokov," ed. Steven G. Kellman and Irving Malin
> (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000), pp. 21-34.
>
> Best,
> JC
>
> At 10:42 AM 1/1/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> >EDNOTE. SEE COMMENT at end.
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> >From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
> >To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >.
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> >> Hi
> >>
> >> This is my first post and I would like to say hello
> >> and Happy New Year. I have no idea of the amount of
> >> discussion on this list or what the latest posts are,
> >> but I found it via Zembla and Waxwing. I recently
> >> started my own group at Yahoo (Viviandarkbloom)
> >> because I was so despairing of finding a discussion
> >> list. Then I discovered this list.
> >>
> >> Anyway, I haven't read all of N's work so I am a bit
> >> of a novice at discussing everything in detail but I'd
> >> like to kick off by mentioning one particularly
> >> fascinating story. I'm working my way through N's
> >> early stories and I am quite amazed by what I can only
> >> describe as a kind of prototypical magical realism in
> >> them which I've never seen commented on anywhere.
> >> This is particularly so in 'Wingstroke', where an
> >> angel appears in the narrator's hotel room. Anyone
> >> read this delightful story?
> >>
> >> Brian
> >>
> >> =====
> >> http://www.elasticpress.com/sound_of_white_ants.htm
> >> http://www.tobypress.com/books/dance_geometry.htm
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> >EDNOTE. "Wingstroke" was one of the four early stories (w/ "Revenge,"
> >"Potato Elf," & "La Veneziana" that contribute to the aborted "English"
> >channel in VN's early post-Cambridge years when he was switching from
poetry
> >to prose. (The other channel, the Russian one, had Russian emigre
> >settings.) The English stories, in their preoccupation with the
> >"otherworldly," were written under the influence of Walter de la Mare,
who
> >was very popular at the time. I discuss these stories in "Vladimir
Nabokov
> >and Walter de la Mare" in Jane Grayson's conference proceedings volume
> >NABOKOV's WORLD (Palgrave 2002).
> >
> >I join Brian in asking for comment on and discussion of "Wingstroke."
> >
> >
>
From: "Julian W. Connolly" <jwc4w@virginia.edu>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (60
lines) ------------------
> I briefly discuss the story "Wingstroke" in my article "Nabokov's Approach
> to the Supernatural in the Early Stories," in the volume "Torpid Smoke:
The
> Stories of Vladimir Nabokov," ed. Steven G. Kellman and Irving Malin
> (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000), pp. 21-34.
>
> Best,
> JC
>
> At 10:42 AM 1/1/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> >EDNOTE. SEE COMMENT at end.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Brian Howell" <pakmshlter@yahoo.com>
> >To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >.
> >>
> >> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (33
> >lines) ------------------
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> This is my first post and I would like to say hello
> >> and Happy New Year. I have no idea of the amount of
> >> discussion on this list or what the latest posts are,
> >> but I found it via Zembla and Waxwing. I recently
> >> started my own group at Yahoo (Viviandarkbloom)
> >> because I was so despairing of finding a discussion
> >> list. Then I discovered this list.
> >>
> >> Anyway, I haven't read all of N's work so I am a bit
> >> of a novice at discussing everything in detail but I'd
> >> like to kick off by mentioning one particularly
> >> fascinating story. I'm working my way through N's
> >> early stories and I am quite amazed by what I can only
> >> describe as a kind of prototypical magical realism in
> >> them which I've never seen commented on anywhere.
> >> This is particularly so in 'Wingstroke', where an
> >> angel appears in the narrator's hotel room. Anyone
> >> read this delightful story?
> >>
> >> Brian
> >>
> >> =====
> >> http://www.elasticpress.com/sound_of_white_ants.htm
> >> http://www.tobypress.com/books/dance_geometry.htm
>
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> >
> >EDNOTE. "Wingstroke" was one of the four early stories (w/ "Revenge,"
> >"Potato Elf," & "La Veneziana" that contribute to the aborted "English"
> >channel in VN's early post-Cambridge years when he was switching from
poetry
> >to prose. (The other channel, the Russian one, had Russian emigre
> >settings.) The English stories, in their preoccupation with the
> >"otherworldly," were written under the influence of Walter de la Mare,
who
> >was very popular at the time. I discuss these stories in "Vladimir
Nabokov
> >and Walter de la Mare" in Jane Grayson's conference proceedings volume
> >NABOKOV's WORLD (Palgrave 2002).
> >
> >I join Brian in asking for comment on and discussion of "Wingstroke."
> >
> >
>