Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Tuesday, October 6

'On the Road with Jack and Vlad'

Banned Book: Leaves of Grass

Why are books disturbing? Why banned?

Arthur Cunningham speaks about Walt Whitman:
  • "anything powerful and true is going to cause trouble in the world"
  • "float the stories on the vast river of Whitman"
  • Full of music and a voice of sensuality dense and right at the same time

"Nabokov is in complete control of everything in his novel" ~Dr S

#4th best novel of the 20th C: it is the 'gold standard' of literature

Vlad is an "anthropomorphic Deity"

HH is 'charming and lecherous', he stole Lolita's soul

At the end, the story from comedy to tragedy

Jennie-Lynn's blog: Children at play pg 220-1

VN said that he hated Finnegan's Wake, but he actually understood and talked about it in Lolita!

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