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Anonymous Mon Mar 4 17:28:22 2013 No.3528181 [Reply] [Original]

To the anglophone part of /lit/:

How do you feel about the fact that the best technical and aesthetic writer in your language is a Russian, a person whose mother language was not english?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 17:30:22 2013 No.3528187 Honestly, I feel horrible.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 17:31:22 2013 No.3528189 u mean conrad? agreed

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 17:33:22 2013 No.3528196 >tfw Nabokov got everyone to believe he was the best prose stylist by including “You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style” at the beginning of Lolita.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 17:33:22 2013 No.3528197 One of the best english novelists today is Salman Rushdie. One of the best french novelists is Yasmina Khadra. So what?

Anonymous Mon Mar 4 17:33:22 2013 No.3528198

>>How do you feel about the fact that the best technical and aesthetic writer in your language is a Russian, a person whose mother language was not english

I am generally impressed with Mr. Nabakov's obvious intelligence and talent. Other than that, who cares about such a question?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 17:36:22 2013 No.3528208 >>3528198 Yeah, impressed mostly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 17:45:23 2013 No.3528243 Not only that but the Irish writers are prosaically far ahead of the english.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 17:51:23 2013 No.3528270 >>3528181 Don't really care, I just like books

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 17:51:23 2013 No.3528271 Nabokov's pop was mad that lil Vladimir was speaking English before Russian The nigga was perfectly trilingual, Russian wasn't his first language, he didn't have one

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 17:58:22 2013 No.3528303 >the best technical Henry James wasn't Russian to my knowledge.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 18:01:22 2013 No.3528312 File: 16 KB, 460x276, JosephConrad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I didn't knew Conrad was Russian.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 18:03:23 2013 No.3528320 File: 125 KB, 800x465, ayn_rand.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Got a wrong picture there, pal.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 18:04:23 2013 No.3528325 >>3528197 Isn't Yasmina Khadra first language French ? Te fact that she has an Arab name doesn't change much in this matter.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 18:05:22 2013 No.3528332 The same way I felt when I found out that Shakespeare did not write most of the plays attributed to him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 18:05:22 2013 No.3528335 >>3528332 2edgy4me He wrote them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 18:06:22 2013 No.3528339 File: 18 KB, 413x395, 1335122637287.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3528320

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 18:07:22 2013 No.3528344 >>3528335 My assertion is as uncertain as yours.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 18:07:22 2013 No.3528347 >>3528312 No, he was polish, it's basically the same concept

>>	the only living jedi in new york Mon Mar 4 18:08:22 2013 No.3528349 That's arguable at best. Also I don't really care. And Nabokov didn't have "a" mother language; he was a native English speaker as much as he was a Russian.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 18:08:22 2013 No.3528351 >>3528344 If we stand on equal ground then lets go with the commonly accepted opinion that he wrote them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 18:09:22 2013 No.3528355 >>3528271 This. Actually both Conrad and Nabokov received instruction in English at an early age.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 18:09:22 2013 No.3528358 >people mixing latin characters with cyrillic it messes with my head so much, the words on that picture are pronounced ilddimg idbokov

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 18:19:22 2013 No.3528400 >>3528181 >dat image >dat text lldbimig idvokov? I fucking hate when people do this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 18:24:22 2013 No.3528418 >>3528303 This guy's got it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 4 18:28:22 2013 No.3528438 >>3528325 First Yasmina Khadra is a pen name. He's actually an algerian man whose first language is Arabic. He even speaks French with a strong accent, but he writes beautifully.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 5 06:03:23 2013 No.3529970 File: 85 KB, 306x500, palefire.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I read Lolita and I like Nabokovs writing style. What's another good book by him? Is Pale Fire good?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 5 07:35:22 2013 No.3530098 >>3529970 Please guys.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 5 07:40:22 2013 No.3530104 >>3529970 It's a good intellectual read and even better with footnotes to understand all historical, literary and scientific allusions.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 5 08:00:22 2013 No.3530138 >>3529970 Try 'Ada'.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 5 08:22:22 2013 No.3530205 >>3530104 >intellectual Oh, I think I might be too stupid for the book then.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 5 08:36:22 2013 No.3530237 >>3530205 Read it anyway. It's funny enough without all these footnotes. Besides, after you read Lolita Pale Fire wouldn't be problematic.

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