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...similar question is raised about the novel's hero, Physicist Sebastian Bloch, in whom readers will find it hard not to see at least some Oppenheimer traits: he has "a universal mind," an otherworldly face and a mesmeric personality. Bloch also belongs to a Communist apparatus, but carries no party card. Young Mark Ampler, a U.S. security agent who enrolls at Bloch's university to keep tab on the physicist promptly falls under his spell. Pearl Harbor packs Mark off to war and sets Sebastian fervently to work on the Bolt, or the Monster, as Author Chevalier interchangeably...
...Real Life of Sebastian Knight, by Vladimir Nabokov. Early Nabokov (circa 1941) is better than Late Almost Anybody Else,.and in this novel his paradoxical mind plays trenchantly over the nature of reality, identity, and the artist's task...
...there are others. For instance, Johann Sebastian Bach, whom students can hear during much of the hour devoted to Music 10 (Music Building 2). The course is taught by Wallace Woodworth and titled, oddly enough, The Music of J.S. Bach. Over at 2 Divinity Avenue, Professors Reischauer and Fairbanks introduce the novitiate to Far Eastern History...
...Sebastian Knight, a novelist, has fallen through the last trap door, death. His half brother, the nameless first-person narrator of the novel, feels the loss like a psychic amputation. It is as if a great secret had been buried with Sebastian, perhaps the meaning of life itself. The half brother determines to ferret out the secret by reconstructing Sebastian Knight's life in a biography. His quest takes him to a college chum of Sebastian's at Cambridge who recalls a miserable emigre trying desperately to be more pukka than the sahibs. (Nabokov graduated from Cambridge...
...argument suggests that Nabokov is applying The Method to writing. He occupies his characters like houses; they have the lived-in look. As early as Sebastian Knight, Nabokov's writing was rich in fringe benefits. There is his animistic imagery: a stopped clock face wears "the waxed moustache of ten minutes to two," the first spring zephyrs are "cold-limbed ballet-girls waiting in the wings." There is the unflinching refusal to sacrifice art to the urgencies of politics: "Time for Sebastian was never 1914 or 1920 or 1936-it was always year 1." There is the verbal clowning...