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Craig Raine and other Nabophiles (fwd)
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From: D.K. Holm <dkholm@pop.nwlink.com>
>Perhaps this is not the forum for discussing Raine, but I would
>think that admirers of VN would also enjoy Raine's writing.
>When I first read "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home," I thought I
>heard in it echoes of Nabokov, some quality or set of qualities
>I could not quite specify--perhaps the powers of observation and
>language: the ability look at some common object and find to
>describe it a metaphor which is entirely original and yet
>perfect and, in retrospect, obvious.
>
>Jay Livingston
**Someone could write a book on Nabokov's influence on the prose style of
subsequent writers. They range from Updike to Edmund White and Hanson (the
mystery writer, who claims Nabokov as an influence). As I'm sure you all
know by now, the so-called Martian movement included Raine and Martin Amis,
whose book at the time, "Other People," is a blend of Nabokov and
Existentialism, who has always cited Nabokov as a major influence (more
even, it seems, than his own father).
>Perhaps this is not the forum for discussing Raine, but I would
>think that admirers of VN would also enjoy Raine's writing.
>When I first read "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home," I thought I
>heard in it echoes of Nabokov, some quality or set of qualities
>I could not quite specify--perhaps the powers of observation and
>language: the ability look at some common object and find to
>describe it a metaphor which is entirely original and yet
>perfect and, in retrospect, obvious.
>
>Jay Livingston
**Someone could write a book on Nabokov's influence on the prose style of
subsequent writers. They range from Updike to Edmund White and Hanson (the
mystery writer, who claims Nabokov as an influence). As I'm sure you all
know by now, the so-called Martian movement included Raine and Martin Amis,
whose book at the time, "Other People," is a blend of Nabokov and
Existentialism, who has always cited Nabokov as a major influence (more
even, it seems, than his own father).