Vladimir Nabokov - The Metamorphosis

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Description: SOME MORE: Nabokov's -Lectures on Literature-, edited by Fredson Bowers, makes a wonderful companion to this piece. My first encounter with this film was during a visit to Cornell. We spent a day driving around Ithaca checking out Vladimir & Vera's former houses. (They never purchased property in Ithaca, but instead stayed at various houses of tenured faculty on sabbatical.) During our time living "Out West," we visited Portal, Arizona, where V & V used to winter and V used to conduct his work as a lepidopterist. ---- Those interested in extending the sensibility of "V&V" will want to check out the following website of Victor Vitanza. http://www.egs.edu/faculty/victorvitanza.html Although V.V. differs from V&V, they nevertheless share a sensibility in the passage from V's masterpiece, -The Gift-: In this work, V echoes something that Vitanza says by way way of Giorgio Agamben. That is, Vladmir/Vitanza discuss a sensibility that "would not be a form of a book, which by its finiteness is opposed to the circular nature of everything, but [instead will have been regarded as] a continuously curving, and thus infinite sentence" that would appear on a "flat, rectangular paper" (Dar 231). This "flat, rectangular paper"--a piece of paper that we continue to experience--shows up in a variety of other contexts that will be explored in subsequent YouTube postings. For now, adventurous readers/th.inkers of V&V will want to try out VV's impossible-cum-compossible DAR.t-like stylistics. http://enculturation.gmu.edu/5_1/vitanza.html
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aGua421 ::: Favorites anyone know when this was shot? 07-09-22 12:54:47 __________________________________________________
thula2 ::: Favorites I seriously suggest you go into literary criticism. A book titled " Nabokov was an Asshole; Cervantes Rules" would be much more interesting than Nabokov's essays on European classics, Russian literature and some spick and his fat fuck friend. 07-09-21 07:21:50 __________________________________________________
menorca1571 ::: Favorites nabokov was an asshole ignorant of spain. His boook on Don Quixote is shit. CERVANTES RULES!!! 07-08-26 19:11:27 __________________________________________________
billgbg ::: Favorites Man, what a fantastic actor this guy is! 07-08-16 19:30:04 __________________________________________________
gombro ::: Favorites Thanks for posting. This is the type of material that YouTube needs. 07-07-07 17:29:15 __________________________________________________
evenfiercernow ::: Favorites Previous commentators are right, Plummer is pretty close to VN as I've heard him. He could speak with, to quote on interviewer, 'a dramatic Cambridge accent' but this would flag after a while. He put it beautifully himself: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child". 07-06-23 05:34:12 __________________________________________________
inbatwin ::: Favorites Znaesh russky? Zdorovo! 07-06-21 15:38:22 __________________________________________________
inbatwin ::: Favorites Не had a very slight accent. He spoke English, Russian and French from the very childhood and, moreover, spent his early years in Cambridge. So you are right. I don't understand it either 07-06-21 15:37:06 __________________________________________________
crimm1984 ::: Favorites Compare the actor's performance to Nabokov's real voice: libraries. psu.ed u /nabokov /realaud. ht m (reconstruct it yourselves) Plummer sounds pretty damn close to the original thing, in my opinion. No doubt Nabokov would protest that Plummer's long 'Os' are ochre or some other terrestrial color, while his 'Os' are a weak solution of blue. 07-06-20 21:59:54 __________________________________________________
ondine55 ::: Favorites Those Cornell students were damn lucky! It's wonderful to get a sense of VN's remarkable lecturing skills... However, he never delivered lectures extemporaneously; he always read from meticulously prepared notes...But I suppose that'd be pretty boring on film! 07-06-20 00:24:56 __________________________________________________