Does anyone else pick up on all the nabokov tendencies newsom has? i feel like she has read all of his books and absorbed them, especially lolita, and it's very fun for me (as a fan of both artists) to think about them together and draw connections. both use some pretty vivid language and emotional intensity with their words.
in nabokov's lolita, humbert humbert recalls a song that lolita loves, and it's about a lost love of some type. i hear this song echoed in baby birch. it goes:
O my Carmen, my Carmen!
Something, something those something nights,
And the stars, and the cars, and the bars and the barmen--
And, O my charmin', our dreadful fights.
And the something town where so gaily, arm in
Arm, we went, and our final row,
And the gun I killed you with, O my Carmen,
The gun I am holding now.
the lost love, the guilt of having killed it, the stars, the cars, the rhyme scheme---all very similar.
Wow... That song does seem to relate to Baby Birch so much. I haven't read Lolita yet, but I plan on it now. I definitely see the similarities in the writers though, not only in this song, but in many of them. Nabokov seems to emit from her lyrics. Both of them are incredible!
Wow... That song does seem to relate to Baby Birch so much. I haven't read Lolita yet, but I plan on it now. I definitely see the similarities in the writers though, not only in this song, but in many of them. Nabokov seems to emit from her lyrics. Both of them are incredible!
Does anyone else pick up on all the nabokov tendencies newsom has? i feel like she has read all of his books and absorbed them, especially lolita, and it's very fun for me (as a fan of both artists) to think about them together and draw connections. both use some pretty vivid language and emotional intensity with their words.
in nabokov's lolita, humbert humbert recalls a song that lolita loves, and it's about a lost love of some type. i hear this song echoed in baby birch. it goes:
O my Carmen, my Carmen! Something, something those something nights, And the stars, and the cars, and the bars and the barmen-- And, O my charmin', our dreadful fights. And the something town where so gaily, arm in Arm, we went, and our final row, And the gun I killed you with, O my Carmen, The gun I am holding now.
the lost love, the guilt of having killed it, the stars, the cars, the rhyme scheme---all very similar.
any thoughts?
Wow... That song does seem to relate to Baby Birch so much. I haven't read Lolita yet, but I plan on it now. I definitely see the similarities in the writers though, not only in this song, but in many of them. Nabokov seems to emit from her lyrics. Both of them are incredible!
Wow... That song does seem to relate to Baby Birch so much. I haven't read Lolita yet, but I plan on it now. I definitely see the similarities in the writers though, not only in this song, but in many of them. Nabokov seems to emit from her lyrics. Both of them are incredible!