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Query: Surrealist painter in "Spring in Fialta"
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From: Franz <k-franz@ra2.so-net.ne.jp>
------------------ Hello I'm a Japanese student whose major is American
Literature and now reading Nabokov's brilliant short story _Spring in
Fialta_.
There are several (in fact not several, you know) descriptions I don't
understand.
One of the characters in the story, Ferdinand has a few friends.
Among them there is a bald artist(painter).
an artist with an impeccably bald though slightly chipped
head, which under various pretexts he consatantly painted
into his eye-and -guitar canvases.
_Nabokov's Dozen_(Penguin, 1960), p. 17
What's the eye-and-guitar canvases?
Is there a real model of this artist?
Surrealist painter?
I'm afraid my question is trivial.
Could anyone help me?
Thank you.
Yasu KITAHARA (Franz)
------------------ Hello I'm a Japanese student whose major is American
Literature and now reading Nabokov's brilliant short story _Spring in
Fialta_.
There are several (in fact not several, you know) descriptions I don't
understand.
One of the characters in the story, Ferdinand has a few friends.
Among them there is a bald artist(painter).
an artist with an impeccably bald though slightly chipped
head, which under various pretexts he consatantly painted
into his eye-and -guitar canvases.
_Nabokov's Dozen_(Penguin, 1960), p. 17
What's the eye-and-guitar canvases?
Is there a real model of this artist?
Surrealist painter?
I'm afraid my question is trivial.
Could anyone help me?
Thank you.
Yasu KITAHARA (Franz)