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Re:Newspaper article about the affinities between Nabokov and Hitchcock, the letters they exchanged (November 28,1964) and phone talks. Hitchcov e Nabocock 01 de junho de 2013 Sérgio Augusto - O Estado de S.Paulo http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/impresso,hitchcov-e-nabocock,1037742,0.htm
Jansy Mello: Early this morning I checked the exchanges between the allegued "twin souls" Nabokov and Hitchcock, in "Selected Letters 1940-1977" edited by Dmitri Nabokov and M, Bruccoli. The way Sérgio.Augusto reccounted their encounters passes on the impression that both N and H were on closer terms than the written evidence warrants. He states that their biographers disregard or ignore these letters because they dismiss their importance. On page 401 (VN,AY) B.Boyd mentions these letters only in passing, stressing the plot of VN's initial project concerning an "interplanetary love story and at the same time an oppressive sense of superpower secrecy" anticipating VN's future "Letters to Terra" and the idea for "ADA."*
Brian Boyd, in AY (p.466), describes Nabokov's arrival for Kubrick's "Lolita" gala opening night, and quotes him: "as eager and innocent as the fans who peered into my car hoping to glimpse James Mason but finding only the placid profile of a stand-in for Hitchcock." Actually, this is another point that Sérgio Augusto elaborated upon, by pairing: Hitchcock's cameo appearances in his movies and Nabokov's authorial interventions in his novels.**
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* - A.Sklyarenko (and other List Members) brought up to the List a Soviet movie about interplanetary love but I cannot recollect the names he cited to google- search for them.
** - In his last posting to the List, related to Kinbote's putative knowledge about birds, butterflies and the "Phanessa/Phanes" theories, Brian Boyd referred to one of these in Pale Fire: that fits into his theory (I mean, the Shadean versus Kinbotean controversy): "I think at this level of hide-and-seek, Nabokov winks straight at the reader through the Kinbote mask." It's quite amusing to think that, perhaps, this was indeed something the "souls" of Hitch and Nabok shared: a taste for propitiating "Egophanies" (if I may express myself like that...)
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Jansy Mello: Early this morning I checked the exchanges between the allegued "twin souls" Nabokov and Hitchcock, in "Selected Letters 1940-1977" edited by Dmitri Nabokov and M, Bruccoli. The way Sérgio.Augusto reccounted their encounters passes on the impression that both N and H were on closer terms than the written evidence warrants. He states that their biographers disregard or ignore these letters because they dismiss their importance. On page 401 (VN,AY) B.Boyd mentions these letters only in passing, stressing the plot of VN's initial project concerning an "interplanetary love story and at the same time an oppressive sense of superpower secrecy" anticipating VN's future "Letters to Terra" and the idea for "ADA."*
Brian Boyd, in AY (p.466), describes Nabokov's arrival for Kubrick's "Lolita" gala opening night, and quotes him: "as eager and innocent as the fans who peered into my car hoping to glimpse James Mason but finding only the placid profile of a stand-in for Hitchcock." Actually, this is another point that Sérgio Augusto elaborated upon, by pairing: Hitchcock's cameo appearances in his movies and Nabokov's authorial interventions in his novels.**
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* - A.Sklyarenko (and other List Members) brought up to the List a Soviet movie about interplanetary love but I cannot recollect the names he cited to google- search for them.
** - In his last posting to the List, related to Kinbote's putative knowledge about birds, butterflies and the "Phanessa/Phanes" theories, Brian Boyd referred to one of these in Pale Fire: that fits into his theory (I mean, the Shadean versus Kinbotean controversy): "I think at this level of hide-and-seek, Nabokov winks straight at the reader through the Kinbote mask." It's quite amusing to think that, perhaps, this was indeed something the "souls" of Hitch and Nabok shared: a taste for propitiating "Egophanies" (if I may express myself like that...)
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