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"They always go on about how the point of the book is that child abuse is bad. Even though nabakov explicitly said there is no moral to this story. Because do you seriously need a book to tell you that kidnapping and abusing a child is bad?? ... So many jokes and puns and a weird sense of whimsy to t"
"Neckbeard english grad student bass player in tasteful button down shirt (I wonder what his thoughts are on Nabokov, post-#metoo)."
"Where do you rank her choices? Personally, I'm shocked by the lack of Nabokov and Anaïs Nin"
"It's great, much funnier than I expected."
"After trying and failing to make it through Nabokov's Pale Fire for the umpteenth time (I adore his prose but I'm a brainlet and just want to read a linear story) I went and picked up Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart"
"2 - Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita"
"On this particular day I was reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. As I was reading a particular passage (you'll know what I mean if you've read it), I was suddenly hit by an intense dread that somebody behind me would look at what I was reading, without the context of the novel, and come to the concl"
"currently reading pale fire by vladimir nabokov. *LOVING IT*."
"ANOTHER ONE of these -- I don't want to call them tricks, they're more like principles: not really that either, I don't know what they are but they keep popping up again and again. the way things look is much more important than they say. nabokov says writing is 'a visual medium.' he's correct, and "
"I'm in Bushwick 28F and would maybe like to do a once a month gathering, anything classic/lindy ie. Moby Dick, the Odyssey, Anna Karenina, Faulkner, Nabokov, etcetera."
"Nabokov - Invitation to a Beheading. Easy enough to read, some beautiful writing and very funny in places... More knowledgeable readers than myself here told me that apparently Nabokov denied any influence from Kafka at all, which is hard to believe."
"His multi-lingual wordplay and unique word choice has been the single biggest inspiration & influence on my art. I think it resonates so much because my mother tongue is also Slavic, and our syntax and case endings are variable in ways that english/romance languages can only dream of."
"but it seems that he truly invented something with *Lolita* -- not just the story itself, but an entire aesthetic and attitude that has since taken on so many forms. the book came out in 1955, and i'm truly not sure if our cultural stock image of 'badly behaved babydoll' existed before that? to try "
"Here's a bit of Nabokov to tempt u,,,"
"So I, in my uninfinite wisdom ---- wishing to make a genuine connection---- circled all my favourite writers --- no big deal right? Well, I happened to have circled Nabakov. Yknow, the architect behind not just Lolita but Pnin and Pale Fire; the greatest "American" prose writer since Melville etc."
"2 - Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita"
"On this particular day I was reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov."
"Nabokov - *Invitation to a Beheading*... Lots of words I'd never heard before, quite a few of which it seems Nabokov made up himself"
"Aesthetes, linguists, critics of poshlust and philistinism - VN stans unite His multi-lingual wordplay and unique word choice has been the single biggest inspiration & influence on my art."
"obviously it's highly probable that lana would still be famous and successful etc. if nabokov hadn't written his book."
"Here's a bit of Nabokov to tempt u"
"I read pale fire by Vladimir nabokov and it went way over my head."
"Nabokov is quite recondite, lol"