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it opens with a poem called pale fire, a poem of 1,000 lines in rhymed couplets.
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a mad professor charles kinbote.
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has taken on a deranged attachment to the poet.
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which he means to explicate in his most outlandish way.
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the first line of the actual poem is "i was the shadow of the waxwing slain-"
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"...the mad explicator", kinbote, he opens-
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...his commentary about the waxwing, and then suddenly he shifts to this.
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and the revolt and gusto it showed when consuming long, sad-
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i want to remember. i want you to remember our bringing him-
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...mind, nabokov's, brilliant book on-
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...gogol. it's one of the grandest things ever written by one writer about another.
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[inaudible 00:01:13] nabokov. i haven't made a study of his life. i haven't translated him and i'm not related to him that i'm aware of.
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and i had been told that it was a dirty book by my friends. and in some ways, of course it is dirty book.
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lots of things for boys to think about.
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the future holds and how everything will settle. we could only guess.
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this is my second appearance. i was here at christmas 19-
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i was in the overflow crowd, actually 20, 30 people seated right here,
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and to begin on a note of jazz and popular culture is quite appropriate.
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people, journalists, that he shared his april 23rd birthday with shakespeare
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but i would rather point out that nabokov shares his year of birth, 1899
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with fred astaire and duke ellington.
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with extraordinary suddenness. their work can bring us.
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i invariably render them speechless by saying "he was the most fun to be with of anyone i've ever known.
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he was like your best pal in fourth grade.
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you know the one, if you had a strict schoolmarmish teacher as ample as say "mademoiselle o"-
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...and she was riding with chalk on the board and all of her was jiggling.
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and you'd be sent to the principal, and the principal would warn you that this was going on your permanent record.
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it was always an adventure. it was always fun with nabokov two quick examples of what i mean. when we went to see him.
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i said, i had only two, a verbal altercations
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one of my students rush off to me in the cafeteria and told me i was a eunuch.
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no no alfred, you misunderstood them, he said you are unique.
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she'd been sitting way in the back. and she complained to me in slang.
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i hadn't heard since my early youth that a couple near her had been spooning.
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and nabokov eagerly his eyes glinting says.
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what did you say to her? and i said with considerable smugness, because i thought my repost had been very witty.
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i said, sister, be glad that in these difficult times
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nabokov published his best books after the age of 50, how did he do this in the face of.
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a gift, an accident of temperament to character and determination and ethical achievement.
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absolutely astonished to see their fluency. he couldn't understand it. he kind of stammered, he said it must be psychological.
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and then in a tone, i'd never heard before from him. he says, a tone throbbing with unsettled grief.
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50 years after his father's death. he said he was cheated.
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he was cheated of his chance to leave.
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i'm joyce, carol oates of princeton university.
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i'm honored to be part of this distinguished gathering, such a festival occasion.
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i was about the same age as lolita, but i have to confess i was nothing like lolita.
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not a dazzling, difficult story in which the author-
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but a more subdued, elegiac tale of parental grief.
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in its way, this story, too, is difficult. it is the work of a virtuoso-
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... yet its depiction of a stark domestic tragedy-
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... in no way romanticized or melodrama-tized, suggests artistry of the highest quality.
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reading portions and summarizing a little than reading the final, third part, which is very powerful.
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it's a subtle story, has a subtle ending. so i hope it will come across. my theory is that a portion of nabokov is better than none.
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and my hope is that you will immediately read or re-read this story tomorrow.
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signs and symbols was written in english, originally published in the new yorker, which seems appropriate-
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and collected in nabokov's dozen in 1958.
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his parents chose a dainty and innocent-
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... trifle, a basket with 10 different fruit jellies and 10-
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at the time of his birth, they had been married already for a long time.
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a score of years had elapsed, and now they were quite old.
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her drab gray hair was done, anyhow.
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black dresses. unlike other women of her age, she presented a naked, white countenance to the fault-finding light of spring days.
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her husband, who, in the old country, had been a fairly successful businessman, was now wholly dependent on his brother isaac-
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... a real american of almost 40 years standing.
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they seldom saw him and had nicknamed him the prince.
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that friday, everything went wrong. they go by subway, and it breaks down.
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they get on a bus, and it's not a very pleasant atmosphere.
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it was raining hard as they walked up the brown path leading to the sanitarium.
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there, they waited again. and instead of their boy shuffling into the room, as he usually did-
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... his poor face blotched with acne, ill-shaven, sullen, and confused-
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... a nurse they knew and did not care for appeared at last and brightly-
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... explained that he had, again, attempted to take his life.
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he was all right, she said, but a visit might disturb him.
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the last time he had tried to do it-
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... his method had been, in the doctor's words, "a masterpiece of inventiveness."
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the system of his delusions had been the subject of an elaborate-
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... paper in a scientific monthly, but long before that, she and her husband had puzzled it out for themselves.
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is a veiled reference to his personality and existence.
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he excludes real people from the conspiracy because he considers himself to be so much more intelligent than other men.
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phenomenal nature shadows him wherever he goes.
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clouds in the staring skies transmit to one another, by means of slow signs, incredibly detailed information regarding him.
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his inmost thoughts are discussed at nightfall, in manual alphabet, by darkly gesticulating trees.
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some of the spies are detached observers, such as glass surfaces and still pools.
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others, such as coats in store windows, are prejudiced witnesses, lynchers at heart.
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others, again... running water, storms... are hysterical to the point of insanity, have a distorted opinion of him, and grotesquely misinterpret his actions.
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he must always be on his guard and devote every minute and module of life to the decoding of the undulation of things.
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when they emerged from the thunder and foul air of the subway-
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... the last dregs of the day were mixed with the street lights.
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they entered their two-room flat, and he at once went to the mirror.
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straining the corners of his mouth apart by means of his thumbs
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with a horrible mask like grimace. he removed his new hopelessly uncomfortable dental plate
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and severed the long tusks of saliva, connecting him to it.
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he read his russian language newspaper while she laid the table
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with the pale vittles that needed no teeth. she knew his moods and was also silent.
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when he had gone to bed she remained in the living room with her pack of soiled cards and her old albums.
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across the [inaudible 00:00:42] yard where the rain tinkled in the dark against some battered ash cans, windows were blandly alight and then one of them,
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a black trousers with man with his bare elbows raised and could be seen lying on an untidy bed.
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she pulled the blind down and examined the photographs.
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as a baby, he looked more surprised than most babies.
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and she's looking through these various photographs, so. four years old in a park moodily, shyly, with a puckered forehead, looking away from an eager squirrel.
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age six, that was when he drew wonderful birds with human hands and feet and suffered from insomnia, like a grown-up man.
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