By August, Proust was writing to Vallette, informing him of his intention to develop the material as a novel.
8月,普鲁斯特写信给瓦列特,告诉他打算把这些材料写成小说。
What can art do according to Marcel Proust?
马塞尔·普鲁斯特认为艺术能做什么?
But, Nabokov's relationship to this modernist past is not just the burlesque that he visits on Eliot, is not just this complicated attraction and dis-identification that he works on with Proust.
但是,纳博科夫和现代主义者的关系不只是,他对艾略特的滑稽模仿,也不只是和普鲁斯特,复杂的吸引和不认同。
Then somebody else would raise his hand and say, "Proust."
然后又一个人举手说:“普鲁斯特“
But actually, the thing I want to think about is a crude pun there, a "fairy" tale. Proust is himself gay. One of his big subjects is homosexuality, and Nabokov's reaction to this is really homophobic. This is not just about Nabokov's personal prejudice.
但事实上,我想说的是这里的一个粗糙的双关语,一个“童话“故事,普鲁斯特是一个同性恋,他讨论的一个,话题就是同性恋,但纳博科夫对此是相当反感的,这仅仅是因为纳博科夫的个人偏见。
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