Comments on: Nabokov’s Lectures on Don Quixote: Two Portraits: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza http://tiltingatwindmillsblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/nabokovs-lectures-on-don-quixote-two-portraits-don-quixote-and-sancho-panza/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:31:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Amateur Reader http://tiltingatwindmillsblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/nabokovs-lectures-on-don-quixote-two-portraits-don-quixote-and-sancho-panza/#comment-802 Amateur Reader Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:28:46 +0000 http://tiltingatwindmillsblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/nabokovs-lectures-on-don-quixote-two-portraits-don-quixote-and-sancho-panza/#comment-802 "Don Quixote" is a complicated book, with a lot to get. Nabokov may not "get" parts of it, but he has real, original insights into other parts. Read the section on the inset romances, or the ideas about the end of the novel. Also, without agreeing with every example, Nabokov demolishes the conceit that the novel is a series of defeats for Don Quixote. Nabokov would have preferred to write about something else. At Harvard, he was forced to include "Don Quixote" in a literature survey course. These lectures are the result. He never taught the book again. “Don Quixote” is a complicated book, with a lot to get. Nabokov may not “get” parts of it, but he has real, original insights into other parts. Read the section on the inset romances, or the ideas about the end of the novel. Also, without agreeing with every example, Nabokov demolishes the conceit that the novel is a series of defeats for Don Quixote.

Nabokov would have preferred to write about something else. At Harvard, he was forced to include “Don Quixote” in a literature survey course. These lectures are the result. He never taught the book again.

]]> By: Dorothy W. http://tiltingatwindmillsblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/nabokovs-lectures-on-don-quixote-two-portraits-don-quixote-and-sancho-panza/#comment-361 Dorothy W. Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:58:22 +0000 http://tiltingatwindmillsblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/nabokovs-lectures-on-don-quixote-two-portraits-don-quixote-and-sancho-panza/#comment-361 Hmmm ... I respect Nabokov very much, and yet I don't agree with him at all here; he really seems not to have gotten it. This really isn't the book for him, and he would be better off writing about something else! Hmmm … I respect Nabokov very much, and yet I don’t agree with him at all here; he really seems not to have gotten it. This really isn’t the book for him, and he would be better off writing about something else!

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