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aptsvet

Силлогизм по запрещенной фигуре

Jan 30, 2006 14:40

Набоков учил, что в повествовании от первого лица герой не имеет права умереть.
У Грабала в "Поездах под особым наблюдением" герой-повествователь умирает за несколько страниц до конца.
Грабал лучше, чем Набоков.

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larvatus January 30 2006, 16:28:18 UTC

    PATIO - (DAWN)
    The body of Gillis being fished from the pool, put on a stretcher, covered with an army blanket. Two men from the Coroner’s office carry it towards the Coroner’s hearse, CAMERA PANNING with them.
    GILLIS’ VOICE:
    Well, this is where you came. Here’s that pool again, the one I always wanted. They must have photographed me a hundred times. Then they got a couple of pruning hooks from the garden and fished me out ever so gently. Funny how gentle people get with you once you’re dead. They beached me, like a harpooned baby whale, and started to check the damage, just for the record… By this time the whole joint was jumping - cops, reporters, neighbors, passersby - as much hoopdedoo as we get in Los Angeles when they open a Super Market. Even the newsreel guys came roaring in. Here was an item everybody could have some fun with, the heartless so-and-so’s. What would they do to her? Even if she got away with it in court - crime of passion - temporary insanity - those headlines would kill her: Forgotten Star a Slayer - Aging Actress - Yesterday’s Glamour Queen…
    - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr., Sunset Blvd. (1950)

I grinned, because she didn’t really mean a thing by it, you know.
    I barked, I guess it sounded like a bark maybe; my body jerked, rolled a little. And then I stopped.
    I just kind of stopped all over.
    - Jim Thompson, After Dark, My Sweet (1955)

aptsvet January 30 2006, 17:23:40 UTC

Вот это как раз сюжетные повороты, над которыми смеялся Набоков. И я с ним согласен.

larvatus January 30 2006, 17:40:17 UTC

Sunset Blvd. dwarfs effete Nabokoviana.

aptsvet January 30 2006, 17:46:43 UTC

A distinct possibility. I am not playing a Nabokov advocate here anyway. Still, I consider his thesis valid as long as we are talking about some vaporous post-mortem existence of the character. Hrabal's protagonist dies entirely, as we all do or will do.

larvatus January 30 2006, 18:07:19 UTC

You have this article of faith handed down on the authority of Bohumil Hrabal? We must alert Hamlet to the certainty of making his quietus.

aptsvet January 30 2006, 18:24:06 UTC

Hamlet is an amusing character but hardly an authority in the matter of death. Even Shakespeare isn't. God would be, but he is heavily handicapped by his non-existence.

larvatus January 30 2006, 18:42:00 UTC

Try Plato. Or Wernher von Braun.

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