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Vladimir Nabokov thread?
Vladimir Nabokov thread.

My favorite book by him is Lolita but I'm also partial to Ada or Ardor. Thoughts about this unique author?

>> No.2686422
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>> No.2686425

>>2686422
Tru fax. I think its pretty good once you get past all of that though.

>> No.2686427

>>2686422
more or less accurate

>> No.2686456

I would fuck his shit up in the ring.

>> No.2686457

Any other opinions around? Literary criticisms?

Come on. You guys are the first ones to know who I'm talking about here.

>> No.2686460

>>2686456
XD XD XD

>> No.2686476

Funny, I'm rereading Ada now.
I noticed he's partial to the t and d sounds.

>> No.2686483

I am writing a paper where I use narrative focalization theory in a comparative character study of Humbert Humbert, amongst others.

Have not begun my analysis or close reading of Lolita yet, finishing up the other novel first.

>> No.2686484

>>2686476
Yeah, I noticed that too. I think its because he had synthesia.

>> No.2686490

>>2686484
Synthenesia?
How would that affect his diction?

>> No.2686499

>>2686483
Awesome! Humpert Humpert is an interesting character. He's a protagonist and antagonist all rolled up into one dysfunctional and gentlemanly psychopath.

>> No.2686502

>>2686490
Certain letters and sounds invoked certain images or feelings. Maybe he liked the ones associated with the 'd' and 'th' sounds.

>> No.2686506

>>2686502
Hard t.
I'm partial to the sounds as well, but cannot taste triangles.

>> No.2686508

be scrounging around my town bookstores and library for his books, but I'm coming up short. Found a copy of "King, Queen, Knave" and was tempted to pick it up. Any good?

>> No.2686513

>>2686508
Yeah. Its not my favorite but its classic Nabokov.

>> No.2686516

>>2686506
True.

>> No.2686520

>>2686499

Yeah, I think so. The other character I am comparing him to might surprise: Holden Caulfield.

My thesis is that being in Jail and at a Sanatorium colors their narratives in unique ways. I study things like their unreliability, or reliability, with that in mind. Treating both as two characters: Holden the Narrator not being synonymous with Holden the Protagonist.

And soon I'll do the same with Humbert Humbert.

>> No.2686524

>>2686520
That sounds really amazing and fun! Holden is also another protagonist/antagonist. I loved Catcher in the Rye but gawwdam was he ever the whiney brat.

>> No.2686530

I like what I am seeing so far. Keep them coming, for I like to fondle the details.

>> No.2686535

>>2686490

d is green, for one thing

reading ada right now, the ada-van-lucette dynamic is really well portrayed

>> No.2686537

>>2686535
Oh my God, isn't? <3

>> No.2686539

>>2686524

Yeah, but again that aspect is changed if you take into account the concept of focalization.

Holden the Protagonist whines and lies. Does Holden the Narrator do the same?

I haven't read the novel through with that aspect in mind, but thinking back, I do believe that there are at least a few times that he comments on people's phoniness as a narrator. Doing a read through with that in mind, however, might really surprise.

>> No.2686546

>>2686539
I never really separated Holden as two different entities.

Whelp, time to do a reread.

How are you planning on using the same concept with Humpert?

>> No.2686555

>>2686546

My plan is to argue that Humbert Humbert sitting in jail addressing, in his mind, the judge and jury, is twisting the tale and endearing himself to us by his allusions and prose.

I will probably do some focus on the two scenes where his mask breaks: the Lolita lolita lolita lolita... rant. As well as the place where he comments something like: she cried. every night, every night.

A number of pages will most likely be dedicated to the study of Humbert Humbert's reliability. Finding ambiguity and contradictions in his story.

>> No.2686564

>>2686546

If you think about it, he starts right from the first page to endear himself to us. And the troubling thing about Lolita is that he is successful. We really start to think he isn't that bad.

>> No.2686565

This is kinda related but:

Is there any good contemporary russian writer after Nabokov?

>> No.2686570

What do you think of The Master and Margarita? It's on my to read list.

>> No.2686572

>>2686555
>>2686564

Dude, yes! He is the quintessential unreliable narrator. And he is charming as hell. He's witty and suave and can almost make you forget what a terrible person he is before the facade breaks.

Nabokov seems to have a thing for writing that sort of protagonist.

>> No.2686574

>>2686570
Loved it.

>> No.2686581

>>2686572

By narrating his own story, Humbert takes over the part the judge, the lawyer and the even we the jury would play.

He writes 'Did she have a percursor? She did, indeed she did.'

That is the question he asks and answers in the first chapters.

That is not the question we are concerned with. We want to know if you really drove from motel to motel molesting a 12 year old girl who cried herself to sleep every night.

>> No.2686593

One thing I love about Nabokov is that he is as difficult as Joyce, if you interested in digging that deep, without being that difficult to read, if you just want the story.

>> No.2686594

>>2686535
Your d may be green.
If I had synthenesia, my d may as well be white as bleached teeth or yellow as a smoker's fingertips.

>> No.2686596

>>2686581
Actually the main charge probably would've been the murder... Humbert disguises that fact from us quite well, though. The only thing he was concerned with was holding out his control over Lolita, and consequentially, that's what the reader is forced to examine as well. The reader cares nothing for Humbert's murder, because he cared for it neither.

>> No.2686602

>>2686596

Good point.

>> No.2686624

>>2686594

bullshit

>> No.2686633

>>2686624
Why?

>> No.2686637

>>2686633

it's obviously green, dude

p and v too