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Rank Nabokov's works for me, /lit/, as in

God tier:
High tier:
Mid tier:
Low tier:
Shit tier (if there are any:

I've read Lolita, and thought it was brilliant, obviously. I've been intensely interested in Nabokov ever since but I'm not at all sure what the consensus is on the quality of his other works.

>> No.2727056

bump

>> No.2727059

No one has ever read anything but Lolita

>> No.2727080

You are seriously letting me down right now /lit/

>> No.2727081

'Ada (or Ardor(: A Family Chronicle))' is god-tier, in my opinion, superior to 'Lolita' (and arguably racier), but it's not well-known here. i rather like it that way, since once a work becomes well-known on /lit/ and receives frequent endorsements, then it starts getting tossed around inside pretentious e/lit/ist threads, etc.

>> No.2727091

>>2727059
Pale Fire's probably read as much on her as Lo

>> No.2727092

God-Tier
Lolita, Ada, Pale Fire
High Tier
Lectures on (...), The Stories of Vladmir Nabokov
Mid-tier
Everything else

>> No.2727098

>>2727081

Ada was absolutely marvelous, I agree. Better than Lolita. god tier!

"The Real Life of Sebastian Knight" was between mid-high tier.

"Mary" was high-god tier.

"Pale Fire" was high tier.

"The Enchanter" was high tier.

Gosh I love him.
I'm absolutely obsessed with Nabokov. My favorite.

>> No.2727113

>>2727098

>Mary

My nigga. The part at the end leading up to his decision had me on the edge of my seat.

>> No.2727117

Anybody read the Defense ? The plot seemed pretty interesting, i'm considering reading it soon.

>> No.2727140

>>2727117

Read it and enjoyed it. Not sure where it would rank among Nabokov's works but it did get me back into Chess.

>> No.2727179

No one here has read Invitation to a Beheading? :(

I haven't read much Nabokov yet, but he's already one of my favourite authors.

God tier:
Lolita, Invitation to a Beheading, Pale Fire

High tier:
Bend Sinister

Mid tier:
Low tier:
Shit tier (if there are any): Nothing he wrote will be shit

>> No.2727183

I read Invitation, and apparently Nabokov is too clever for me, because I really didn't get anything out of it. It had some nice prose, sure, but it was just weird nonsense.

I'm more of a Dostoyevsky fan, and Nabokov hated him, so maybe I just don't get Nabokov.

>> No.2727199

God Tier:
Ada Pale Fire Pnin Speak memory Lolita Bend Sinister The Gift

High Tier
the Stories. Camera Obscura Despair The Defense Invitation to a Beheading King Queen Knave The Eye

Mid Tier
Mary, Glory, The real life of sebastian knight, look at the harlequins

Low Tier:
strong opinions, lectures on Don Quixote, prince igor

Shit tier:
Eugene Onegin
Lectures on Russian Literature

inb4 criticism. his lectures on Russian literature are retarded, petty, stupid ramblings. his attacks on dostoevsky have as little value as his praise of tolstoy, because they're equally incoherent and subjective -- since he's an author he doesn't think his opinions need to make sense to anybody else. None in those lectures is interesting, informative or useful to the reader of russian lit in any way