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Re: THOUGHTS: Fugal Structure, De Vries Article
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Matt Roth: ... with regard to the question of fugal structure in VN's work, I would like to recommend Gerard de Vries's article from Cycnos, "Nabokov's Pale Fire, Its Structure and the Last Works of J.S. Bach." I think it's accessible here: http://revel.unice.fr/cycnos/document.html?id=1052
JM: Some time in the past there was a reference to Douglas Hofstadter's book on Bach & The Art of the Fugue. My copy is at my office and I couldn't manage List-googling to recover a posting in which Dmitri Nabokov expressed his opinions about Hofstadter.
I only found my own message posted on August 03, 2003 12:16 PM with the subject: Editor's Notes on Sebastian Knight - another approach?
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Hi, Don
There is a very interesting book by Douglas Hofstadter ( " Escher, Gödel and Bach, the eternal golden braid") where he discusses the hypothesis that BACH died after he wrote a fugue using the musical notes that corresponded to his name and created a self-referential theme.
Jansy
This reference to Bach's death after including in his last Fugue the notes BACH (in the German notation) might fit in with MR's interest in fugal themes and Kinbote's suicide.
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JM: Some time in the past there was a reference to Douglas Hofstadter's book on Bach & The Art of the Fugue. My copy is at my office and I couldn't manage List-googling to recover a posting in which Dmitri Nabokov expressed his opinions about Hofstadter.
I only found my own message posted on August 03, 2003 12:16 PM with the subject: Editor's Notes on Sebastian Knight - another approach?
Here is the text:
Hi, Don
There is a very interesting book by Douglas Hofstadter ( " Escher, Gödel and Bach, the eternal golden braid") where he discusses the hypothesis that BACH died after he wrote a fugue using the musical notes that corresponded to his name and created a self-referential theme.
Jansy
This reference to Bach's death after including in his last Fugue the notes BACH (in the German notation) might fit in with MR's interest in fugal themes and Kinbote's suicide.
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