That in Aleppo Once... | Themes

Communication and Miscommunication
Nabokov’s France is a place where attempts at communication routinely break down. For example, when the narrator and his wife write to her uncle in New York, they receive no reply. After finding his wife (and the train) gone at Faugeres, the narrator engages in a ‘‘nightmare struggle with the telephone’’ trying to find her, and sends ‘‘two or three telegrams which are probably on their way only now.’’ These examples of bureaucratic miscommunication serve to underscore the more subtle examples of miscommunication that occur...

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