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Field via nabolog by fulmerford on 3/12/10
Carrie Frye contrasts Nabokov's color field to Muriel Spark's:
Through this "scattering of nutshells" (Lane's phrase) you get a
portrait of Nabokov as a writer. I was reminded of it by Maud's similar
collage of first sentences from nine Muriel Spark novels. Interesting
to compare the two. For example, Nabokov's color field: azure shading
into quivering blue, vivid greens and a spot of red. The only colors in
the Spark selection: "almost white" and the "clear crystal" you come to
after the "murk & smog" -- a fittingly chilly palette for a writer who
writes as cleanly and sparely as Spark does.The rest here. (Via Maud
Newton)
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Field via nabolog by fulmerford on 3/12/10
Carrie Frye contrasts Nabokov's color field to Muriel Spark's:
Through this "scattering of nutshells" (Lane's phrase) you get a
portrait of Nabokov as a writer. I was reminded of it by Maud's similar
collage of first sentences from nine Muriel Spark novels. Interesting
to compare the two. For example, Nabokov's color field: azure shading
into quivering blue, vivid greens and a spot of red. The only colors in
the Spark selection: "almost white" and the "clear crystal" you come to
after the "murk & smog" -- a fittingly chilly palette for a writer who
writes as cleanly and sparely as Spark does.The rest here. (Via Maud
Newton)
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