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Subject:
QUERY--"Signs and Symbols" |
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From:
"Hyman, Eric" <ehyman@uncfsu.edu> |
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Date:
3/7/2014 9:16 AM |
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To:
Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU> |
COLLEAGUES:
On March 28 at the College English Association
I will
deliver a paper linking Nabokov’s hereafter and what he calls key
moves
in both chess problems and short stories. It occurred to me that
in "Signs
and Symbols" the mysterious phone calls that baffle the old couple
and
many readers might be some kind of communication, especially the
last four
words in the story, from their newly dead son, sort of like the
last paragraph
of “The Vane Sisters.” Has this occurred to anyone
else? If so, could you provide the reference (including this
NABOKV-L)?
Is it a plausible surmise? What might be some of the other
solutions/key
moves to those phone calls?
Eric Hyman
Professor
of English
Department
of English
Butler
133
Fayetteville
State University
1200
Murchison Road
Fayetteville,
NC 28301-4252
(910)
672-1901