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On Calvino and Nabokov, I wonder if Calvino's enthusiasm was prompted
by the affinities between Zembla and Anti-Terra, on the one hand, and
his own project in INVISIBLE CITIES of creating fantastic "imaginary
geographies." Calvino, of course, limits himself to a multitude of
prose-poem length vignettes, compared to which Kinbote's Zembla is a
fully worked out fictional world.
John Foster.
On Calvino and Nabokov, I wonder if Calvino's enthusiasm was prompted
by the affinities between Zembla and Anti-Terra, on the one hand, and
his own project in INVISIBLE CITIES of creating fantastic "imaginary
geographies." Calvino, of course, limits himself to a multitude of
prose-poem length vignettes, compared to which Kinbote's Zembla is a
fully worked out fictional world.
John Foster.