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14074514 No.14074514 [Reply] [Original]

Any books like this that have the main character speaking French and using colloquial's every other line? Is Pale Fire like this? I found it irritable at first but when the more I got into it the more I realized the different feelings/meanings the French words Humbert uses evoke; especially when he was talking the Harlot/Hooker in a flashback of his. Made the scene have a genuine European feel.

>> No.14074583

I just started Pale Fire and it has a very similar feel to Lolita

>> No.14074597

>>14074514
shut up you fucking pedophile loser, and nabokov's french is amateur

>> No.14074934

>>14074597
You do realize that it tells us when the OP post again, right? Lol

>> No.14075273

>>14074514
>I found it irritable
retard
>>14074934
>Replies: 3
>Posters: 4
other retard

>> No.14076270

>>14074583
i don't agree.
explain yourself.

>> No.14076296

>>14076270
The college town, the over articulation by Kinbote, idk it felt very Nabokovian much like Lolita

>> No.14076453

>>14074514
Camus' 'The Fall' maybe. Not exactly french colloquialisms transferred to english as in Lolita, obviously, but the narrator's voice has the same sort of flamboyant and cocksure timbre to it.

>> No.14077025

>>14076270
Neither do i.
I found it hugely disappointing after lolita.