Referential

Fiction Responding to Fiction: Vladimir Nabokov and Lorrie Moore

Fiction Responding to Fiction: Vladimir Nabokov and Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore’s story “Referential,” published in the New Yorker in 2012 and included in her 2014 collection Bark, is a clear homage to and reflection of Vladimir Nabokov’s story “Symbols and Signs,” published in 1948 in the New Yorker and included in his collection Nabokov’s Dozen a decade later.