tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post2866720286239325036..comments2024-03-29T15:04:20.549+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Nabokov: Russia, Europe and the American WestHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-15365409831718300822016-01-11T16:54:45.444+11:002016-01-11T16:54:45.444+11:00Parnassus
I always thought that people were born ...Parnassus<br /><br />I always thought that people were born and educated in one place, and that was their core identity, even if they moved to other places in their adulthood. If they were committed to cultural internationalism, I assumed it meant they were Russian (or whatever) and then willingly adapted to other cultures and absorbed other values. <br /><br />But what happens to this theory if Nabokov was equally skilled in three languages from birth and equally exposed to three different cultures from kindergarten on? I may have to change my entire understanding of cultural internationalism.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-5248416179747692572016-01-11T04:45:43.716+11:002016-01-11T04:45:43.716+11:00Hello Hels, Nabokov's peripatetic life must c...Hello Hels, Nabokov's peripatetic life must certainly have influenced his thoughts and writing, especially since most of his moves were done under political pressures. For my next book-shopping spree, I will try to find some of his later works--now I an interested to see if I can discern any national/geographical threads in his writing.<br />Parnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-24724906709017365112016-01-10T00:13:43.489+11:002016-01-10T00:13:43.489+11:00Deb
the language he used is still fascinating... ...Deb<br /><br />the language he used is still fascinating... almost as if Nabokov was playing games with the words. And it didn't matter if he was writing in Russian and did his own translations into French or English, or vice versa.<br /><br />But Lolita was certainly his most famous book. The theme is very weird! A middle aged academic Humbert Humbert, became obsessed with a pre-pubescent girl Dolores Haze, aka Lolita. Humbert married Lolita’s widowed mother, presumably so he could root Lolita *sigh*Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-35036728848450496102016-01-10T00:06:12.407+11:002016-01-10T00:06:12.407+11:00Andrew
sometimes the links are totally unexpected...Andrew<br /><br />sometimes the links are totally unexpected.. and even a bit spooky. I had never heard of Frank Pick (Vice Chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board) and Charles Holden (the major inter-war architect for London Underground) until this week in one of my favourite blogs. Then I saw them in a second blog, for a totally separate project, within 12 hours of the first.<br /><br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-76624692926911479832016-01-09T10:09:48.206+11:002016-01-09T10:09:48.206+11:00I read Lolita years ago and found the writing inte...I read Lolita years ago and found the writing interesting but the characters weird.Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-82009203561110223922016-01-09T08:49:13.459+11:002016-01-09T08:49:13.459+11:00I heard him in an interview in a BBC podcast quite...I heard him in an interview in a BBC podcast quite recently. It was quite interesting and your information about his life adds to it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com