#équivoque

n The Luzhin Defence, for instance, all the chess games are described through metaphors of labyrinths and music. (Though Nabokov himself was an accomplished composer of chess problems, it clearly would have been rebarbative to describe actual games in technical detail.) So here is the hero searching for a move, halfway through his duel for the world championship: “A kind of musical tempest overwhelmed the board and Luzhin searched stubbornly in it for the tiny, clear note that he needed in order in his turn to swell it out into a thunderous harmony.”

You can’t film that. Indeterminism is banned.

alors quoi #indéterminisme ? #ambiguïté #équivoque

#nabokov