The notation comes from a nineteen twenties play called "Burlesque."

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But, Nabokov's relationship to this modernist past is not just the burlesque that he visits on Eliot, is not just this complicated attraction and dis-identification that he works on with Proust.

但是，纳博科夫和现代主义者的关系不只是,他对艾略特的滑稽模仿，也不只是和普鲁斯特,复杂的吸引和不认同。

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