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Reminder: Nabokov started writing Pnin for .., we see traces of the ... structure.
The reference to the king heightens, .... the image of flight from the homeland.
Skaz is a written narrative that imitates a ...through its use of dialect, slang, and the peculiar idiom of the persona. Skaz is related to skazka; the narrator has ... Also, the fact of admitting the fact of narration adds to ...
Pnin perceives his false teeth as his..., and they are even personified on line 26
... (benevolence) - use of the device. « I'm not very good in this »(lines 1-5 of the passage) > attempt at gaining the understanding, revealing inferiority and confiding in the narratee. It means ... Strategy of creating complicity with the narratee.
In the incipit of Chapter 1, Pnin is deprived of several things: 1. assonance apish upper lip. > animality, depriving of ..Feminine feet > ..., deprived of masculinityInfantile absence of eyebrows > childlike, deprived of his...
"Now a secret must be imparted" > 'imparted to the narratee', at Pnin's expense(exchange between the narrator and the narratee; the narrator tries to create a form of complicity, ...).
Roland Barthes - effet de réel - effect of the real: Details which may not be crucial to the plot, but that give us the illusion that the ...
In the 'telephone conversation' passage, the telephonic space is presented as a distinct...
Novel = a web of sense, patterns,with reliance on ...
Chapter 1 : On page 9, with the phrase 'had written with my help,' the narrator establishes a ... with the subject of his narration.
In the passage on 'teeth' The change in the gait is manifested in the change of relationship to the .... First, it's just an accessory, he doesn't actually need it. Then, two hours later, he depends on his cane, he uses it as a support, a third leg , a crutch.
Synecdoche or metonymy. 'Synecdoche' is when the word for ... or less commonly, the word for a whole is used to refer to a part. 'Metonymy' is when a word associated with something is used to refer to the thing itself.
The narrator = the implied author. The implied reader = ...
The telephone as a narrative device:Nicholson Baker :...(1992) developed the device throughout the novel.
The novel ends in ... So, the whole narrative takes 5 years. It contains many ... Context: Cold War.
... approach to the body (Nabokov's lepidopterist work's influence).In Lolita: Evolution of the caterpillar to the butterfly - evolution of the teenager's body.
In the opening lines(of passage in Chapter 2), the narrator begins by discussing the artist's technique of depicting telephone conversations, but unexpectedly, he then makes a quaint comparison with an oriental town. It is a...
Excerpt from Pale Fire (1962). Case of intertextuality.Novel set in a ..., Wordsmith College, in New Wye.Comic device, Pnin's name as an 'acoustic phenomenon'.
p.13 'for the nonce I am his physician' - It is not actually true. Narrator putting masks, disguises. He is giving himself ... as a 'doctor'.