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What did they mean by this?

>> No.9273920

At least Hemmingwayposter isn't a hypocrite.

>> No.9274021

>>9273920
Got eem

>> No.9274031

>>9273915
It means Hemmmmmmingway is right, since the cropping was better done.

>> No.9274271

Nabokov is my personal God. learn Russian, bastards!

>> No.9274284

>>9274271
didn't nabokov write primarily in english though? not exclusively, but primarily?

>> No.9274308

>>9274284
About half/half. The Russian phase ends with The Gift; the English phase begins with Seb. Knight. He and his son translated many of his Russian novels into English, however.

>> No.9274325

>>9273915
(((They))) are meant to bait, but the whole 'baiting idea' is bogus on /lit/ --find a means of exercise, write. No one cares (or should care) what initial posts purport to be here.

>> No.9274340
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9274340

>as Gore Vidal tartly observed, no one enjoyed Nabokov's books as much as Nabokov did

>“…American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like [Ernest] Hemingway and not seen the joke?”

>> No.9274985

hebephile or closeted fag, pick you are poison

>> No.9275026

Exclusively using medium words is the patrician way.

>> No.9275066

>>9274340
Oh, that's accurate. On the other hand, both Burr and Julian are solidly okay. Myra Breckenridge, however, Gore's own jaunt into the sexually risque, is mildly interesting if youre 15.

>> No.9275155

>>9275066
>"Nabokov handled this same theme with infinitely greater elegance in Lolita. But I was only twenty when I made my attempt, while he was half as old as time."