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19 septembre 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.pus.5330
- isbn: 9782868209832
- eisbn: 9791034404780
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, « Nabokov, Perrault, and Tales of Long Ago », Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, ID : 10.4000/books.pus.5330
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The Waltz Invention, a play that Nabokov wrote in Paris in 1938, includes a figure named “Old Perrault” whom others recall “reciting his wonderful fairy-tales.” Old Perrault is not a character, exactly: he fails to appear among the Dramatis Personae (Waltz Invention, 3), does not participate in the action, and is mentioned only in passing. Even so, he seems integral to the play’s structure and chronology. He dies the night before it begins (18-19); his funeral takes place offstage during the ...