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Vladimir Nabokov's Apprenticeship in Andre Gide's "Science of Illumination": From The Counterfeiters to The Gift

Vladimir Nabokov's Apprenticeship in Andre Gide's "Science of Illumination": From The... Je ne sais pas comment vous diriez cela en russe ou en anglais, mais je vous certifie qu’en français, c’est très bien. André Gide, Les Faux-Monnayeurs I do not know how one would put it in Russian or in English, but I assure you that in French it sounds great. André Gide, The Counterfeiters N HIS FLIGHT ACROSS the United States, the scholar of French literature Humbert Humbert finds temporary abode in the town of Beardsley, inhabited by Gaston Godin—a French professor and an “old fraud, who is nevertheless ” generally admired as a “French genius. According to Humbert, Gaston is a worth” less scholar and pedophile who entertains young boys “in the privacy of an orientally furnished den. His studio is decorated with images of famous homosexuals, ” among them André Gide and Marcel Proust. The conjunction of Oriental taste and homosexuality is emphasized by a gift that “a little lad” of Gaston’s brings to Humbert—a money box with an Oriental design of the type one finds in Algiers (183-84, 217). This geographic marker singles out Gide’s from among the other portraits in Gaston’s studio—and apparently for good reason: erotic obsession with boys permeates Gide’s story L’Immoraliste http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

Vladimir Nabokov's Apprenticeship in Andre Gide's "Science of Illumination": From The Counterfeiters to The Gift

Comparative Literature , Volume 54 (3) – Jan 1, 2002

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2002 by University of Oregon
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0010-4124
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1945-8517
DOI
10.1215/-54-3-197
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Abstract

Je ne sais pas comment vous diriez cela en russe ou en anglais, mais je vous certifie qu’en français, c’est très bien. André Gide, Les Faux-Monnayeurs I do not know how one would put it in Russian or in English, but I assure you that in French it sounds great. André Gide, The Counterfeiters N HIS FLIGHT ACROSS the United States, the scholar of French literature Humbert Humbert finds temporary abode in the town of Beardsley, inhabited by Gaston Godin—a French professor and an “old fraud, who is nevertheless ” generally admired as a “French genius. According to Humbert, Gaston is a worth” less scholar and pedophile who entertains young boys “in the privacy of an orientally furnished den. His studio is decorated with images of famous homosexuals, ” among them André Gide and Marcel Proust. The conjunction of Oriental taste and homosexuality is emphasized by a gift that “a little lad” of Gaston’s brings to Humbert—a money box with an Oriental design of the type one finds in Algiers (183-84, 217). This geographic marker singles out Gide’s from among the other portraits in Gaston’s studio—and apparently for good reason: erotic obsession with boys permeates Gide’s story L’Immoraliste

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Published: Jan 1, 2002

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