And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour-books, old tires, and her sobs in the night–every night, every night–the moment I feigned sleep.We have to pair that with that other evocation of the landscape to see this alternate idea, that actually this distanced criss-crossing of the landscape could be damaging. So, here is inutile loveliness coming just from seeing the landscape as a stranger. I composed pastiches: [Humbert’s poem]: “Fraulein von Kulp may turn her hand upon the door. In English it begins with the late novels of Henry James around 1900, in poetry with Eliot and with Ezra Pound. And I spoke about Proust; Gaston Godin has a picture of Proust on his wall, and in fact, he has pictures of all great figures of French modernism–André Gide, the dancer Nijinsky–all figures of this kind of aestheticism, this belief in the power of art, and all gay, as Godin himself is. In other words, chance is already fated. I sat with uranists in the Deux Magots. You can even look at the mention of a knight’s move in this book. My studies were meticulous and intense, although not particularly fruitful. Proust is the great aestheticist of modernism, the novelist who writes about art, who holds up art as a value, as well as giving a theory of memory–memories are important in The danger for Nabokov–remember that his value is originality–the danger is that he will fall too in love with something too like himself.
Thus isolated, thus removed, the vision acquired an especially keen charm that made me race with all speed toward my lone gratification.So, we have a kind of image there of the autonomous aesthetic pleasure, right, the pleasure of imagination that’s taken alone, according to one’s own thoughts rather than in some broader, more social form.But abruptly, fiendishly, the tender pattern of nudity I had adored would be transformed into the disgusting lamp-lit bare arm of a man in his underclothes reading his paper by the open window in the hot, damp, hopeless summer night.So, the object of this wonderful aesthetic reverie, the nymphet, turns out to be an adult male.
Nor Fresca. That’s that element of violence that keeps coming back, the trail of slime across this dream of transforming reality, in this Joycean way, into something saved, the dream of turning fate, the fate of a dead mother–or, in Nabokov’s own case, a father killed by assassination, a brother killed in a concentration camp–turning that into this beautifully worked out, playful system, defined by puns, and images, and a spell of rhetoric. So that’s enough on Eliot.Now I want to really clarify for you what I mean by this term “modernism.” It just means the art and literature of the early twentieth century, especially the “high art,” although its roots are definitely in the nineteenth century, especially the French nineteenth century, fiction and poetry. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.
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