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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Invitation to a Bebeading: Nabokov's "Violin in a Void" | 3 | |
| Invitation to a beheading: Nabokov and the Art of Politics | 47 | |
| Nabokov's invitation: Literature as Execution | 66 | |
| The Otherworld in Invitation to a Bebeading | 93 | |
| The Alpha and Omega of Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading | 119 | |
| "Welcome to the Block": Priglashenie na kazn' / Invitation to a Beheading, A Documentary Record | 141 | |
| Select Bibliography | 181 | |
| Contributors | 195 |
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Steve Grier
reviewed Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading : A Critical Companion on November 11, 2007
Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading : A Critical Companion
Donald Hall is like a cantankerous old cow chewing on its cud. To avoid any misunderstandings, let me emphasize that this is a highly poetic cow, and the cud is, of course, language. When he writes, in his wonderful new collection of essays on poetry, Breakfast Served Any Time All Day, that poetry is all about the "mouth-pleasure, the muscle-pleasure," you can't help but imagine his jaw turning over and over.
"Anybody knows that the word food fills no bellies," Hall says, "but the word food is for chewing on all the same: ef that sets lip to tooth, ou that rounds the lips as if for kissing, deh that smacks tongue onto mouth-top. The word carries no calories but in a receptive mouth the juices flow."
Poetry, in other words, is not sound, but the making of sound. It's not love; it's sex. (And writing is like orgasm, moans the 76-year-old Hall at one point'only it takes longer.)
Read my full review here:
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