Re: Style
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sun, 16 May 1999 18:54:32 +1000
Jim Rovira wrote:
> eh, I guess that depends on how you define style, but I see your point.
> I'm thinking partly from a writer's point of view, I guess. I write two
> first person stories, they come out radically different because I'm
> writing different characters. But I'm doing essentially the same thing
> in both stories...
Yeah, I can see your point, too. I guess the broader point I was making was
that the puppeteers behind the marionettes of Holden and Humbert are so
different as to make the two pieces of art incomparable.
> I may read Pale Fire to get a broader view of Nabokov sometime...maybe if
> I see it in a used bookstore :)
Yeah, I think you'll like that one a lot better. It's kind of like a
psychotic version of Seymour: An Introduction crossed with Julian Barnes'
`Flaubert's Parrot'. Be sure you don't follow *any* of the narrator's
instructions (:
Camille
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