/lit/ - Literature

>reading Lolita, page 37 (chapter 8)
>weird phrasing appears
>"despite my patiently describing to her America"
>???

Shouldn't it be "despite *me* patiently describing to her America"?

Fuck reasons, fuck wisdom, fuck moral lessons, I just read for the sake of aesthetic

>tfw not a 170 IQ intellectual god with an intuitive mastery of all facets of language
>tfw not an aristocratic aesthete who grew up in a culture that taught him to understand and appreciate the greatest achievements of Western civilization
>tfw not a polymath born at a time of world-shaking historical and social developments
>tfw not a Nietzschean artist-hero able to harness the invisible currents of consciousness and craft new ones through my artistic excellence, technical perfection, originality, and deep knowledge of beauty
>tfw the most literary accomplishment I can realistically hope for is that of a Stephen King middlebrow type
>and even that is a total pipe dream
>tfw not a genius
AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

won't somebody please PLEASE just fucking kill me!!?!?!?!?!?!

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>>10472785
>buttblasted Dosto virgin

In Blade runner 2049 there's an aside where one of Nabokov's books is shown and mentioned, I only know about the Lolita story and the book shown wasn't that. It had a white cover I remember that, possibly it was "The eye" as Blade runner has a running theme about eyes and that's a title I saw when I did a quick search.
Anyway I want to know about the main themes of Nabokov's work, and if you have seen the film maybe put forward a suggestion on why Nabokov was brought up, was the film inspired by him in some way, does it have his themes, character types etc.