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- 454 - NOTES to THEDEFENCE R. H. W. Dillard, "Not Text, But Texture: The Novels Of Vladimir Nabokov", The Hollins Critic, Vol. III, No. 3 (June 1966), pp. 3-4. 2 Loc. cit. 3 Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1967), pp. 290-291. 4 Vladimir Nabokov, The Defence, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1969), pp. 33,44. 5 Op. cit., p. 32. 6 Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1972), p. 1. 4.
-. 455 - N0TESt0PALEFIRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7/8 9 Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1962). Wayne C. Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction, (Chicago, 81968), p. 127. Vladimir Nabokov in an Interview with Robert Hughes for the Television 13 Educational Program, New York, (September 1965), reprinted in Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions, (London, 1974), p. 55. Gilbert Highet, "To the Sound of Hollow Laughter", Horizon, IV (July 1962), p. 90. Dwight Macdonald, "Virtuosity Rewarded, or Dr Kinbote's Revenge", Partisan Review, 29 (1962), pp. 437,439: "Unreadable"; "too clever by half"; "high class doodling. " Alfred Chester, "Nabokov's Anti-Novel", Commentary, 34 (November 1962), p. 451: "a total wreck. " Laurence Lerner, "Nabokov's Cryptogram", The Listener, LXVIII (November 29,1962), p. 931: "Mr Nabokov is a comic writer of high talent, perhaps of genius; but he can go and play his cryptographic games on someone else, not on me. " K. Allsop, "After Lolita is this Nabokov just pulling our legs? ", Daily Mail, 8 Nov., 1962, p. 12: "It is a mirage made to measure for Sir Winston Churchill's Chinese phrase: 'A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'. " - "In the plodding mule-train of conventional writing this is a unicorn of a novel. " Mary McCarthy "Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire", , Encounter XIX (October 1962), pp. 71,84). Shade's poem has been said to be "about nothing in particular": Richard Kostelanetz, "Nabokov's Obtuse Fool", On Contemporary Literature, ed. Richard Kostelanetz, (New York, 1964), p. 481, whereas another critic has regarded it as "a serious meditation on death. " Page Stegner, Escape into Aesthetics: The Art of Vladimir Nabokov, New York, 1966), p. 117. Kinbote's commentary has been condemned as 111 rubbish' which has nothing to do with the matter and style of the poem" by one critic: Gilbert Highet, "To the Sound of Hollow Laughter", p. 89, and has been called "a great scholarly commentary" by another: Julian Moynahan, Vladimir Nabokov, University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, 96, (Minneapolis, 1971), p. 43.
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- 71 - existence" (13). In his pres
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