/lit/ - Literature

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Nabokov is one of the most pretentious writers to ever have written in the English language. One gets the sense that he wrote with a dictionary open, slowly intermingling random words into every single sentence, words that were zany, rare, or antiquated, all just to look like he was much smarter than he really was. Oh, and he just had to include paragraphs of French. As someone fluent in French, I was disgusted by his repulsive desire to display to Americans that he knew French, to brandish French to a nation that doesn't know any French, knowing his American audience wouldn't understand the pages of poorly written garbage that he wrote in the language, except for the sparse francophiles that chanced upon his child-rape hit novel. That is the epitome of pseudery. Nabokov is the type of writer that leaves an educated man nonplussed at the fact that his embarrassingly pretentious, chi-chi smut has somehow passed for literature.