Dear List,
I agree with J. Friedman's arguments
justifying CK's search for PF's "key" and the comparison bt. VN's
writing and chess problems. But why consider simply one "single key"?
I watched a movie in the sixties where
Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey play several simultaneous games of a
game similar to chess where the boards are transparent and
multilayered ( Rey was an art collector that destroyed the paintings he
bought and I think in this movie there was a scene of the kind VN seems
to enjoy, when a person enters into a painting...). I didn't check
Buñuel's filmography but I'm sure most cinephiles will recognize what
movie I'm describing...
We seldom check for movie references,
besides the philosophic, mystic, literary ones, etc in PF. The Sherlock
Homes movie "Dressed to Kill" was not based in a story by Conan Doyle,
but it could have been watched by VN and migled with his other
allusions to Doyle's actual novels, as they appear in PF...
Jansy