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Phillips' *The Egyptologtist* is the closest thing to PF I've read.
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Hyman, Eric <ehyman@uncfsu.edu> wrote:
> Stanley Wells, rev. of Arthur Phillips,* The Tragedy of Arthur*. *The* *New
> York Review of Books* 58.16 27 October 2011. 63-66:****
>
> ** **
>
> “[. . . ] Arthur Phillips’s wonderfully intricate,
> Nabokovian novel *The Tragedy of Arthur* composed in the form of an
> edition [. . .] of a previously unknown Shakespeare play [. . . ]” (63).
> *The Tragedy of Arthur* is an invented text surrounded by academic, or *
> faux*-academic, commentary. (I have obtained *The Tragedy of Arthur* but
> have not yet had the time to read it.)****
>
> ** **
>
> Wells’s “Nabokovian” primarily alludes to *Pale Fire*, of course, but I
> think *The Tragedy of Arthur* also harkens back to *Bend Sinister*, IMO
> Nabokov’s most underappreciated work. *Bend Sinister*’s Chapter 7, in the
> guise of anti-Stalinist satire, contains a delightful parody of* Hamlet*,
> which, BTW, antedates Tom Stoppard’s *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
> Dead*. And whenever academic parody arises, perhaps there is a distant
> connection to *Pnin*.****
>
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Hyman, Eric <ehyman@uncfsu.edu> wrote:
> Stanley Wells, rev. of Arthur Phillips,* The Tragedy of Arthur*. *The* *New
> York Review of Books* 58.16 27 October 2011. 63-66:****
>
> ** **
>
> “[. . . ] Arthur Phillips’s wonderfully intricate,
> Nabokovian novel *The Tragedy of Arthur* composed in the form of an
> edition [. . .] of a previously unknown Shakespeare play [. . . ]” (63).
> *The Tragedy of Arthur* is an invented text surrounded by academic, or *
> faux*-academic, commentary. (I have obtained *The Tragedy of Arthur* but
> have not yet had the time to read it.)****
>
> ** **
>
> Wells’s “Nabokovian” primarily alludes to *Pale Fire*, of course, but I
> think *The Tragedy of Arthur* also harkens back to *Bend Sinister*, IMO
> Nabokov’s most underappreciated work. *Bend Sinister*’s Chapter 7, in the
> guise of anti-Stalinist satire, contains a delightful parody of* Hamlet*,
> which, BTW, antedates Tom Stoppard’s *Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
> Dead*. And whenever academic parody arises, perhaps there is a distant
> connection to *Pnin*.****
>
> ** **
>
> Eric Hyman****
>
> Professor of English****
>
> Assistant Chair****
>
> Graduate Coordinator****
>
> Department of English****
>
> Fayetteville State University****
>
> 1200 Murchison Road****
>
> Fayetteville, NC 28301-4252****
>
> (910) 672-1901****
>
> ehyman@uncfsu.edu****
>
> ** **
> Google Search the archive<http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en> Contact
> the Editors <nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu> Visit "Nabokov
> Online Journal" <http://www.nabokovonline.com/> Visit Zembla<http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm> View
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> ****All private editorial communications are read by both co-editors.
>
--
Sam
Dr. Samuel Schuman
sschuman@unca.edu
828-258-3621
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