Nabokov On Other Writers

Nabokov On Other Writers. The Writings of Vladimir Nabokov About His Life and Work Liden & Denz His own, primarily—when asked about the function of his editor, he sniffed, "By 'editor' I suppose you mean proofreader"—but as a close second (what else could it be): everybody else's He may not have redefined the language but he was an all around heavy hitter

Savaging a restaurant is usually pathetic, firstly because restaurant quality is so much higher, in general, than novel quality, and secondly, because a restaurant fucks up your meal, they steal at max 2.5hrs of your life, whereas a bad novel can. 10 April] 1899 [a] - 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.

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Vladimir Nabokov, who generally regarded Dostoevsky as a "rather mediocre" writer called The Double "the best thing he ever wrote," saying that it is "a perfect work of art." I'm a huge admirer of Nabokov, but his literary criticism is basically 4chan-tier contrarianism. Perhaps most famous for his novel, Lolita, Nabokov was also a world-renowned expert on butterflies, so much so that in the 1940s he became curator of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology's. Vladimir Nabokov was an unusually opinionated man—particularly when it came to literature

Five... historic London writers, bitchily critiqued by Vladimir Nabokov. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov [b] (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] ⓘ; 22 April [O.S Self-described as "an American author, born in Russia, educated in England, [who] studied French texts", Vladimir Nabokov is one of the most remarkable figures of 20 th century literature

Details of a Sunset and Other Stories Vladimir Nabokov First Edition. Nabokov's opinions are sometimes blatant and at other times subtle. Vladimir Nabokov's opinions on various writers, culled from Strong Opinions: Auden, W