Dear List,Thank you Brian for posting this to the list on my behalf.
I should mention that it was a conversation with Andrea Pitzer (the author of The Secret Life of Vladimir Nabokov) on Twitter about my discovery that got me thinking about the possible meanings beyond just set dressing; it wasn't until I watched the film again after our discussion that the thematic resonance really properly landed.Merci!MichaelOn Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Jansy Mello <jansy.nabokv-L@aetern.us> wrote:
Brian Boyd: Michael Lavey pointed out to me off-list that the American paperback edition of Pale Fire features in the currently Oscar-nominated film Her (2013). He writes: as Pale Fire is concerned with the incomprehensibility of consciousness after death to those still living, Her is concerned with the incomprehensibility of superhuman intelligence (and emotion) to the merely human. I don't think it's a meaningless coincidence that the only book the audience sees in the movie (aside from the main character's own published book of letters) is Pale Fire.
Jansy Mello: We mustn’t forget that what’s presented to the spectator points not only to Nabokov’s novel “Pale Fire” but, also, to a specific edition that ostensibly carries a burnt out match in its cover (not the most appropriate visual rendering of PF in my eyes).
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