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EDNOTE. Appeal and Boyd have both pointed to particular images from magazines as icons of idealized American life (a.k.a. poshlost').
If you have such images please notify Mr. Brown and NABOKV-L.
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Brown
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: The conquering hero?
I need to clarify the following:
"I've seen in this collection what I believe to be many of the "set piece" images Nabokov may have been inspired by as "starting points for his own ironic, and more realistic view of American life...",
Nabokov certainly did not need The Saturday Evening Post or any other magazine as a "starting point" for anything. I meant that his "take" on America brilliantly revealed the strange, yet more real and more beautiful soul, for which Norman Rockwell's art served as a scrubbed, Sunday dressed, anodyne commercial.
----- Original Message -----
From: D. Barton Johnson
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:50 PM
Subject: Fw: The conquering hero?
----- Original Message -----
From: Ole Nyegaard
To: Nabokov Listserver
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 2:23 AM
Subject: The conquering hero?
The ad which Dolores Haze has hung on her wall ("...a dark-haired young husband with a kind of drained look in his Irish eyes. He was modeling a robe by So-and So and holding a bridgelike tray by So-and So, with breakfast for two".), and Appel has reproduced in his anntotations, is it available somewhere on the internet - or somewhere else, for that matter?
And now I'm at it, is René Prinet's "Kreutzer Sonata" to be found anywhere? The only thing I found was a smudged little thing called "The Kiss", which fits with the description given by V.N. in Appel's notes ("an ill-groomed girl pianist rising like a wave from her stool after completing the duo, and being kissed by a hirsute violinist").
Best wishes
Ole Nyegaard, Aarhus, Denmark.
If you have such images please notify Mr. Brown and NABOKV-L.
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Brown
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: The conquering hero?
I need to clarify the following:
"I've seen in this collection what I believe to be many of the "set piece" images Nabokov may have been inspired by as "starting points for his own ironic, and more realistic view of American life...",
Nabokov certainly did not need The Saturday Evening Post or any other magazine as a "starting point" for anything. I meant that his "take" on America brilliantly revealed the strange, yet more real and more beautiful soul, for which Norman Rockwell's art served as a scrubbed, Sunday dressed, anodyne commercial.
----- Original Message -----
From: D. Barton Johnson
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:50 PM
Subject: Fw: The conquering hero?
----- Original Message -----
From: Ole Nyegaard
To: Nabokov Listserver
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 2:23 AM
Subject: The conquering hero?
The ad which Dolores Haze has hung on her wall ("...a dark-haired young husband with a kind of drained look in his Irish eyes. He was modeling a robe by So-and So and holding a bridgelike tray by So-and So, with breakfast for two".), and Appel has reproduced in his anntotations, is it available somewhere on the internet - or somewhere else, for that matter?
And now I'm at it, is René Prinet's "Kreutzer Sonata" to be found anywhere? The only thing I found was a smudged little thing called "The Kiss", which fits with the description given by V.N. in Appel's notes ("an ill-groomed girl pianist rising like a wave from her stool after completing the duo, and being kissed by a hirsute violinist").
Best wishes
Ole Nyegaard, Aarhus, Denmark.