Analysis Of First Love By Vladimir Nabokov

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Vladimir Nabokov suffered a neurological disorder called Synthesia. In this disorder, some senses appear the form of other senses. For his specific case, it allowed him to see letters in color. The literary form of this disorder is writing when one sense describes another. Nabokov’s synthesia allowed for him to compose its’ literary form in a superior manner. Additionally, in its literary implication, synthesia generates juxtapositions of the senses. With and in juxtaposition, he uses the comparison of senses to describe one sense through another sense. Nabokov uses his Synthesia to enhance juxtapositions in order to capture essence of life through words. In his short story First Love, he illustrates importance of using the senses in descriptions …show more content…

A generally major part of his love consisted of the joy he gains from it. Colette’s dog expresses this when his action are described as, “From sheer exuberance, she would lap up salt water from Colette’s pail”(605). Here, Nabokov explains the unconditional joy and excitement that Colette’s dogs feels every time he sees her. At many points in the story, he talks about this dog, which seems irrelevant to mention many times. But he emphasizes this dog to show its parallels to Nabokov. He attempts to describe his genuine ecstatic feeling for Colette. Similar to this dog, just her presence generates ecstasy for him and his excitement actually is not limited to her actions, which really is fairly significant. The joy he specifically feels is fabricated out of the inanimate sensation of love. Colette does nothing to cause this feeling in him, very contrary to popular belief. If a feeling literally is generated out of an inanimate place, words that actually describe the for all intents and purposes physical couldn’t properly essentially give those feeling a just description in a sort of major …show more content…

He expresses the distress he feels from this when he says, “One strange night, I lay awake, listening to the recurrent thud of the ocean and planning our flight. The ocean seemed to rise and grope in the darkness and then heavily fall on its face”(606). By means of the waves, he expresses the pain he for all intents and purposes feels about his plan. Without any attempts or proof, He believes that his fantasies are bound to meet failure. The ocean reaches a point of success, then falls to an unfortunate place. He describes the unfortunate place as isolated, distressing, and arduous, which is the same place that he finds himself in. It impacts him so particularly much that actually has no way to save Colette from her pain in a subtle

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