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CHORB4 (fwd)
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Date: 23 Aug 93 13:38:45 EST
From: EJNICOL@root.indstate.edu
To: NABOKV-L%UCSBVM.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: CHORB4
My CHORB3 was sent just before Don's CHORB2 arrived, or I would have
included this comment then.
What Don calls Chorb's "reverse journey" I have called a "retrograde
plot" in this story when using it to introduce a more tortuous
retrograde plot I found in "Spring in Fialta" (the Nabokov issue of
RLT, p. 175). He was editing that issue, and we discussed it then;
he had observed it too. I'm merely offering a label for this plot
phenomenon.
The idea seems related to the spiral motif in N.'s later works.
But what I'd like to ask the group is, does this reverse journey or
retrograde plot exist in other early works?
Charles Nicol
Date: 23 Aug 93 13:38:45 EST
From: EJNICOL@root.indstate.edu
To: NABOKV-L%UCSBVM.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: CHORB4
My CHORB3 was sent just before Don's CHORB2 arrived, or I would have
included this comment then.
What Don calls Chorb's "reverse journey" I have called a "retrograde
plot" in this story when using it to introduce a more tortuous
retrograde plot I found in "Spring in Fialta" (the Nabokov issue of
RLT, p. 175). He was editing that issue, and we discussed it then;
he had observed it too. I'm merely offering a label for this plot
phenomenon.
The idea seems related to the spiral motif in N.'s later works.
But what I'd like to ask the group is, does this reverse journey or
retrograde plot exist in other early works?
Charles Nicol