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Why did he hate Dostoyevsky so much?

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>releases Pale Fire
>follows it up with an idiosyncratic translation of Eugene Onegin with a novel-length commentary on it
what did Nabokov mean by this?

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Nabokov Killed Faulkner with his Big Fucking Dick

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>>18459254
Nabby Nabs

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What would Nabokov think of P.G Wodehouse?

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>>16470182
>exceptional: treatise

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>inb4 seething

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>>14081528
>Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.
Based Nabby knows all

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What’s his best book?

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>>12769733
lmao get nabbed on loser

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>Tolstoy, Leo. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Read complete works between 14 and 15. Nobody takes his utilitarian moralism seriously. A genius.
fite me

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>is a libertarian
>writes about pedophilia
hmmmmm

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>Don Quixote. A cruel and crude old book
>The Brothers Karamazov. Dislike it intensely
>Faulkner, William. Dislike him.
>Wells, H. G. A great artist

Why does anyone respect him?

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>>8216531
>Sitting passively teenage girls
>Not grooming them instead
Do you even Nabokov?

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what to read after lolita? I need more nabokov

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Other than Nabokov and Joseph Conrad are there any writers who wrote masterful prose in English despite not being native speakers?
>inb4 Bukowski

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What does /lit/ think of Nabokov?

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