Today in class we had the honor of having Gretchen Minton come and speak to our class about Pale Fire and Timon of Athens. then shakespeare play that seems to pop up all over the novel.
It was a real treat to have Minton come and give some great ideas on how Nabokov shaped the characters in Pale Fire.
For me like i have said before in the blog, Nabokov writes about a lot of people and is able to write about people who a reader can connect to. I think one of thegreatest things about Shakespeare is that he to wrote about things and happenings that all people can really relate to... so after having such a concentrated lecture in calss today about two great writers, that at the begininng i would have never found similarities i have!
a minor discovery for myself i suppose but one that i think wil open my eyes a little bit more into the world of Nabokov.
In the handout Minton had printed out for our class she had a quote from Timon of Athens, and when she talked about the quote she had said that in nature, everything steals from everything else. so maybe Nabkov took shakespeares way of writing and turned it into a way for him to writesuch dynamic and interesting characters.... just a thought
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