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De: Jansy
Para: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2012 13:10
Assunto: Re: [NABOKV-L] Nabokov and Twelve-Year-Old Girls ...
RS Gwynn: "I think, or like to think, that he has effected his own catharsis, his own redemption, before dying. He surely has nothing tangible to gain by writing these things in his "confessions." It does strike me as a "moral" ending to the novel, if such is possible. Burgess extends the same possibility of redemption to Alex in the "missing" 21st chapter of A Clockwork Orange, as does Dostoyevsky to Raskolnikov, even though "that is another story," as does Tolstoy to Ivan Ilyich, who, in his own way, is a great sinner too. In most classic novels the protagonist dies with some grace, with the possible exception of poor Emma, to whom none is offered by either God or the author."
JM: It seems that it's Humbert himself who cannot find his way to grace and redemption. Even if fleetingly, he is quite lucid now.
"... Alas, I was unable to transcend the simple human fact that whatever spiritual solace I might find, whatever lithophanic eternities might be provided for me, nothing could make my Lolita forget the foul lust I had inflicted upon her. Unless it can be proven to me - to me as I am now, today, with my heart and by beard, and my putrefaction - that in the infinite run it does not matter a jot that a North American girl-child named Dolores Haze had been deprived of her childhood by a maniac, unless this can be proven (and if it can, then life is a joke), I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art."(The Annotated Lolita, page 282)
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-----Mensagem Original-----
De: Jansy
Para: Vladimir Nabokov Forum
Enviada em: sexta-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2012 13:10
Assunto: Re: [NABOKV-L] Nabokov and Twelve-Year-Old Girls ...
RS Gwynn: "I think, or like to think, that he has effected his own catharsis, his own redemption, before dying. He surely has nothing tangible to gain by writing these things in his "confessions." It does strike me as a "moral" ending to the novel, if such is possible. Burgess extends the same possibility of redemption to Alex in the "missing" 21st chapter of A Clockwork Orange, as does Dostoyevsky to Raskolnikov, even though "that is another story," as does Tolstoy to Ivan Ilyich, who, in his own way, is a great sinner too. In most classic novels the protagonist dies with some grace, with the possible exception of poor Emma, to whom none is offered by either God or the author."
JM: It seems that it's Humbert himself who cannot find his way to grace and redemption. Even if fleetingly, he is quite lucid now.
"... Alas, I was unable to transcend the simple human fact that whatever spiritual solace I might find, whatever lithophanic eternities might be provided for me, nothing could make my Lolita forget the foul lust I had inflicted upon her. Unless it can be proven to me - to me as I am now, today, with my heart and by beard, and my putrefaction - that in the infinite run it does not matter a jot that a North American girl-child named Dolores Haze had been deprived of her childhood by a maniac, unless this can be proven (and if it can, then life is a joke), I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art."(The Annotated Lolita, page 282)
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