/lit/ - Literature

>>13519857
Nabokov is truly one of the greatest authors in history. Reading his memoirs rn, the man literally lived the perfect literary lifestyle.

>>13519863
>the man literally lived the perfect literary lifestyle
post some highlights?

>>13519857
every other book if you want to set the scale that low

>>13519863
His memoir is my favorite book of his. I envy that man.

>>13519857
overrated shit

>>13519867
>>13519875

>I come to a thread to be contrarian for (you)s

Low IQ posters please leave.

>>13519857
Pale Fire.

>>13519871
quick intro please! title? best version? how to enjoy best?

his memoirs, ah a joy to read, good times back then

>>13519863
He was born in nobility. His family was filthy rich

Musil was better.

>>13519866
>Born into an aristocratic family in Russia
>Ancestor "nabok" was Tatar prince, when Russianised he became Nabokov and that's where the family name started
>Grandmother comes from German royalty
>One of his ancestors was a general in charge of a prison where Dostoyevsky was held, and they talked to each other and the "kind general" lent books to him while Dostoy was in prison
>Trilingual household, spoke English, French, and Russian from childhood
>Synesthetic; his mind associates sounds and letters with colours
>Taken to all the highbrow Russian music concerts as a kid
>Explored Russian nature, was taught botany
>Had personal tutors of the highest order. One of his art teachers was a famous painter.
>Read literature from a young age, finished the complete works of shakespeare at 14-15 and many other important authors
>Saw his first dead man from his mansion window when he was 16; it was a soldier fighting in the Russian revolution.
>Exiled from the country when the communists took over, mansion nationalised and turned into an architecture university
I haven't got much further than that yet but I know that later on his father was murdered by Russian monarchists because the man was a famous liberal politician in Russia. Nabby's bloodline and his upbringing was the perfect recipe for creating a literary genius. It's almost too perfect.

>>13520090
but did he have sex though?

>>13520099
Yes. He had a child who became an opera singer and translator. Like I say, perfect genetics.

>>13519857
was he a degenerate bohemian or what? only read the original of laura

Ada, or Ardor is better

>>13519857

Disgusting pedophiles
If i catch any of you anons reading this book in public I will beat you up

>>13519857
Season of migration to the North by tayeb salih obvs.

Proust is certainly better, and Pynchon in Mason & Dixon

>>13519866
>went Cambridge
>so over qualified he spent most of his time playing sports
>got married
>had a son
>stayed with his wife for the rest of his life
>son became a race car driver
>moved to US and taught literature at Cornell
>Pynchon was a student
>Go cross country while writing Lolita
>That one book solidified his name in history and a pension for life
>he and his wife spent their rest of their life in a hotel in Switzerland where he read books and studied butterflys

Can anyone give me rational and logical arguments why I can't enter a consensual relationship with 15 year-old girls in booty shorts?

Faulkner is better.

>>13519857
its ok, read pic related

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>>13519867
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>>13520054
Imagine begging to be spoon fed this shit from strangers instead of pulling your pants up and figuring it out for yourself. You’ll never benefit from the positive qualities of reading literature if you keep living in such a mindless and dependent state. Fool

>>13519857
Humbert internal conflicts slowly turn into his external conflicts and they soon take a mind of their. Coincidence has always been on his side until Dolores cane into his life. Charlotte wanted Dolores out of the picture with her and Humbert while Humbert wanted to get rid of Charlotte.

>>13521768
Is this real?

I was reading an opinion piece the other day. I forget what it was called and where I found it but basically the author went into detail about Nabokov's love of literary puzzles. He then went on to suggest that there was a deeper puzzle in Lolita that was overlooked by nearly everyone. Somehow at the end he concluded that Quilty had survived and that he employed the lawyer from the intro to become Humbert's lawyer and actively manipulate Humbert's manuscript to his liking. Does anyone buy that shit or picked up on that in anyway when reading or is it just the purest form of fanfic schizo posting?

>>13520054
Speak, Memory

>>13520069
Then lost everything. He suffered severely unlike DFW.

>>13520090
Forgot about his scientific contributions as a lepidopterist, that's what convinced me to read Nabokov, soon I will order a copy of Lolita. Which is the best edition, which is the best edition with printed butterflies in it ?