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Wilson as Kinbote??
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Frances Assa [to JM: Once in a while I've the feeling that Kinbote
bears traits inspired in how Nabokov sees critic E.Wilson."] I've been
thinking along those lines as well. Kinbote is certainly filling a
role that Wilson has, when, for example Fitzgerald died leaving "The
Last Tycoon" unfinished, which Wilson completed. It's hard to think
of other similarities.
Dear Jansy and Frances,
This idea that VN is poking fun (and it would have been really vicious
fun) at Wilson in 1962 (!!) is absurd. They were not only very good
friends at the time, but VN owed a great debt to Wilson who had helped
him enormously. The idea that he would repay his good friend's
kindness and generosity with a portrait resembling Kinbote is
grotesque and irreligious.
Carolyn Kunin
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bears traits inspired in how Nabokov sees critic E.Wilson."] I've been
thinking along those lines as well. Kinbote is certainly filling a
role that Wilson has, when, for example Fitzgerald died leaving "The
Last Tycoon" unfinished, which Wilson completed. It's hard to think
of other similarities.
Dear Jansy and Frances,
This idea that VN is poking fun (and it would have been really vicious
fun) at Wilson in 1962 (!!) is absurd. They were not only very good
friends at the time, but VN owed a great debt to Wilson who had helped
him enormously. The idea that he would repay his good friend's
kindness and generosity with a portrait resembling Kinbote is
grotesque and irreligious.
Carolyn Kunin
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