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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:06 AM
Subject: RE: VILLAINS & FAILED CHARACTERS
>
> And I would suggest, although at the moment I haven't the time to get into
> much detail about it, that Ada's preponderance of 'leading' villains is
> entirely apposite given the novel's setting, Antiterra, which really is
the
> "Bizarro World" (forgive the pop culture reference) of great
literature....
>
>
> GK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 7/29/2003 12:15 AM
> Subject: ADA: VILLAINS & FAILED CHARACTERS
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: George <mailto:gshiman@optonline.net> Shimanovich
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:35 PM
> Subject: Re: query for Alexey and others ADA
>
> Nabokov's villains and otherwise failed characters are given plenty of
> stage space to paint themselves in bright colors - only to be refuted by
> precise strokes of their true master. But characters and story line are
> not (for the lack of better term) the focal point of Ada nor of other
> Nabokov's novels. I would suggest that Ada is unique in the number of
> its 'leading' villains and in the breadth and richness of underlying
> themes expressed through them.
>
> - George
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carolyn Kunin <mailto:chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <mailto:NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:07 PM
> Subject: query for Alexey and others
>
> Dear Alexey,
>
> I don't think we disagree, do we? I certainly agree that I have a lot of
> reading and re-reading to do. But really, do you have no response to my
> p.s.?
>
>
>
> Marina is not the only failed actress in Ada. Her daughter isn't very
> successful either. And come to think of it, Van turns out to be
> something of
> a mediocrity on the world stage as well.
>
>
>
>
> Doesn't anyone find it -- well -- true but strange?
>
> Carolyn
>
>
>
From: "Kenny, Glenn" <gkenny@hfmus.com>
To: "'D. Barton Johnson '" <chtodel@cox.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:06 AM
Subject: RE: VILLAINS & FAILED CHARACTERS
>
> And I would suggest, although at the moment I haven't the time to get into
> much detail about it, that Ada's preponderance of 'leading' villains is
> entirely apposite given the novel's setting, Antiterra, which really is
the
> "Bizarro World" (forgive the pop culture reference) of great
literature....
>
>
> GK
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Sent: 7/29/2003 12:15 AM
> Subject: ADA: VILLAINS & FAILED CHARACTERS
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: George <mailto:gshiman@optonline.net> Shimanovich
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <mailto:NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:35 PM
> Subject: Re: query for Alexey and others ADA
>
> Nabokov's villains and otherwise failed characters are given plenty of
> stage space to paint themselves in bright colors - only to be refuted by
> precise strokes of their true master. But characters and story line are
> not (for the lack of better term) the focal point of Ada nor of other
> Nabokov's novels. I would suggest that Ada is unique in the number of
> its 'leading' villains and in the breadth and richness of underlying
> themes expressed through them.
>
> - George
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carolyn Kunin <mailto:chaiselongue@earthlink.net>
> To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <mailto:NABOKV-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:07 PM
> Subject: query for Alexey and others
>
> Dear Alexey,
>
> I don't think we disagree, do we? I certainly agree that I have a lot of
> reading and re-reading to do. But really, do you have no response to my
> p.s.?
>
>
>
> Marina is not the only failed actress in Ada. Her daughter isn't very
> successful either. And come to think of it, Van turns out to be
> something of
> a mediocrity on the world stage as well.
>
>
>
>
> Doesn't anyone find it -- well -- true but strange?
>
> Carolyn
>
>
>