"Dreams can be potent sources of signs and symbols, but just as often they're detritus from the landfills of our minds."
— Pitzer, Andrea
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December 4, 2017
Metaphor
"Dreams can be potent sources of signs and symbols, but just as often they're detritus from the landfills of our minds."
Metaphor in Context
Dreams can be potent sources of signs and symbols, but just as often they're detritus from the landfills of our minds. More than most authors, Nabokov manages in his fiction to reflect both the transcendent and the nonsensical aspects of dream states. The narrator of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight notes absurdities and absences in our sleeping imagination, pinning them on a lackluster performance by the "dream-manager."
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Andrea Pitzer, "'But Maybe?': Immortality, Time, and Nabokov's Dream Diary," Los Angeles Review of Books (December 4, 2017). <Link to LARB>
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12/05/2017
