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Tolstoy's Ghost/The Vane Sisters (fwd)
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From: Michael Maar <michael.maar@snafu.de>
Sorry to be sceptical about the indeed beautiful photograph as a possible source
for the "Vane Sisters". I think the explanation of this Tolstoi-scene is quite
simple. The first person narrator, who is, as so many within Nabokov, not too
well aware of all the things going around, does not understand that it is a
simple chess-board which is alluded to. Tolstoi is playing chess, and that's it.
Best wishes,
Michael
Sorry to be sceptical about the indeed beautiful photograph as a possible source
for the "Vane Sisters". I think the explanation of this Tolstoi-scene is quite
simple. The first person narrator, who is, as so many within Nabokov, not too
well aware of all the things going around, does not understand that it is a
simple chess-board which is alluded to. Tolstoi is playing chess, and that's it.
Best wishes,
Michael