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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
reflective
fast-paced
ajde sve, ali zašto mi je univerzum poslao ovu kratku priču u momentu kada mi se dešava potpuno identična stvar u porodici, koja je isto ponavljanje događaja od prije 10 godina samo sa drugim članom porodice, je l' ja ne mogu da odmorim od kriptičnih znakova i tragičnih sudbina (i'm next aren't i)
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
very good prose but i didn’t like how the “supernatural” elements didn’t show up until the last few paragraphs.
This short story further solidified that I was right about Nabokov's talent. What stands out the most is his prose. The little details of the life he included in this story make it feel so personal and really produce strong feelings and images for the reader. I also appreciate the maturity Nabokov seems to have in dealing with harder subjects of life.
Signs and Symbols is a particularly sorrowful story. I think you can enjoy it at face value without analyzing as the English majors will (although there are enough layers there for them). In terms of deeper analysis, what stood out to me was the irony of the story. The story was about the son's condition (referential mania - he sees everything in the world/nature as a veiled reference to himself and his personality), and there are also all these symbols in the writing that are meant to be referential to him and his situation (such as the flailing bird imagery). The reader is supposed to read to all these things in the text.
Is that on purpose? Is that the point of the work? I really wish I could call him up and ask a few questions I had. I'll settle for sniffing around for any essays online.
Again, even without any analytical layers, the story is worth reading for itself. You end up learning so much about the family in only a few short moments of their lives.
Signs and Symbols is a particularly sorrowful story. I think you can enjoy it at face value without analyzing as the English majors will (although there are enough layers there for them). In terms of deeper analysis, what stood out to me was the irony of the story. The story was about the son's condition (referential mania - he sees everything in the world/nature as a veiled reference to himself and his personality), and there are also all these symbols in the writing that are meant to be referential to him and his situation (such as the flailing bird imagery). The reader is supposed to read to all these things in the text.
Is that on purpose? Is that the point of the work? I really wish I could call him up and ask a few questions I had. I'll settle for sniffing around for any essays online.
Again, even without any analytical layers, the story is worth reading for itself. You end up learning so much about the family in only a few short moments of their lives.
Unpopular opinion coming... I did not love this. It felt like the beginning of a story, more than a short story itself. I should mention that I have a strong dislike for ambiguous endings, so that kind of seals a bad rating from me. I felt like the writing was absolutely wonderful and painted such a vivid picture, so I naturally wanted to see where the story was going to go, but it just ended. I want a full story...always. And I'm sure there is scholarly value to this that was wasted on me, but at the end of the day, I want to be told a story, not the snippet of one.
“I can’t sleep because I am dying,”
me to riley every night at 1030 when i start yawning for free
me to riley every night at 1030 when i start yawning for free
"And then came a time in his life, coinciding with a long convalescence after pneumonia, when those little phobias of his, which his parents had stubbornly regarded as the eccentricities of a prodigiously gifted child, hardened, as it were, into a dense tangle of logically interacting illusions, making them totally inaccessible to normal minds"
Vladimir Nabokov is a literary genius, and no one can say otherwise.
Vladimir Nabokov is a literary genius, and no one can say otherwise.
"All this, and much more, she had accepted, for, after all, living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement. She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had to endure; of the invisible giants hurting her boy in some unimaginable fashion; of the incalculable amount of tenderness contained in the world; of the fate of this tenderness, which is either crushed or wasted, or transformed into madness; of neglected children humming to themselves in unswept corners; of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer."
یک داستان کوتاه خوب و عمیق.
ایزابلا و دیمیتری یک زوج میان‌سال هستند که با خودکشی مجدد تنها پسرشان که به دلیل ابتلا به «جنون ارجاعی» در یک بیمارستان روانی بستری است روبرو شده‌اند و حال بار دیگر دلشان می‌خواهد که او به خانه برگردد، هرچند ته دلشان می‌دانند که شدنی نیست.
یک فیلم کوتاه هشت دقیقه‌ای از این داستان به کارگردانی «آلیشیا ریمارویچ» نیز در سال ۲۰۱۳ ساخته شده است که هر چه جستجو کردم، منبعی برای تماشایش پیدا نکردم.
داستان کوتاه خوبی بود... عالی می‌شد اگر ناباکوف کمی روسی بازی در میاورد و به داستانش شاخ و برگ می‌داد، اما خب او ناباکوف است و نمی‌توان او را یک نویسنده‌ی اصیل روس دانست چون قلمش به شدت تحت تاثیر غرب است.
ایزابلا و دیمیتری یک زوج میان‌سال هستند که با خودکشی مجدد تنها پسرشان که به دلیل ابتلا به «جنون ارجاعی» در یک بیمارستان روانی بستری است روبرو شده‌اند و حال بار دیگر دلشان می‌خواهد که او به خانه برگردد، هرچند ته دلشان می‌دانند که شدنی نیست.
یک فیلم کوتاه هشت دقیقه‌ای از این داستان به کارگردانی «آلیشیا ریمارویچ» نیز در سال ۲۰۱۳ ساخته شده است که هر چه جستجو کردم، منبعی برای تماشایش پیدا نکردم.
داستان کوتاه خوبی بود... عالی می‌شد اگر ناباکوف کمی روسی بازی در میاورد و به داستانش شاخ و برگ می‌داد، اما خب او ناباکوف است و نمی‌توان او را یک نویسنده‌ی اصیل روس دانست چون قلمش به شدت تحت تاثیر غرب است.