Poioumenon! with a few thoughts.

Is a narrative about the writing of a book.

Oddly enough this title is given to books by three of our authors:

Rushdie,

Nabokov,

ampersand,

Beckett.

Check out the Wikipedia article on it. Or be lazy. No matter.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poioumenon






Also

For Everyone with Studies in Nabokov and Oral Traditions:

I was perusing in my past blogs of Oral Traditions to look at my ideas about Socrates throwing the poets out of his Republic because of its relation to Nooteboom's Novel for our class (Aside: I made a Joycian error, it was Plato) when I stumbled across a post about an illiterate fourty-five year old questioned about bears in Novaya Zembla, A distant northern land. I was a little awestruck by this discovery and decided to search deeper for any connections having to do with Nabokov.

I found a blind mnemonic who suffered also from synthesia (a disease which Nabokov suffered)
http://jkushmanoraltradition.blogspot.com/2009/03/blind-mnemonic.html (1 in 3)

With this in mind I began looking into quotes by Nabokov to see his connection with the emergent literature of authors we've been studying.

And here's what I've come to discover.


Joyce is a Synthesizer, cramming everything possible into his novels.

Beckett is an Analyzer, taking everything, especially style, out.

Nabokov is a Stylist who could care little for ideas.

T.S. Eliot (I do not yet have the words to describe him well enough, but I shall try) Returns ideas to poetry.

All Modernist or Postmodernists.
All are the best at what they do.
All believe the theory of time ludicrous.