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>A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy

>This title will be released on November 12, 2019.

Prepare Yourselves!

>> No.13979065

>author interviews are important
AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHHAH

FUCK OFF

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>Anastasia Tolstoy

Imagine having this name

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>Boyd has condensed some of the more repetitive interviews. Nabokov claimed that his favorite book was the just-published Lolita, “the story of a poor, charming girl” who was “caught up by a disgusting and cruel man.” To the suggestion that any of his books could be elucidated by Freudian interpretation, he was indignant: Freud, he proclaimed, “has been one of the most pernicious influences on literature…a medieval mind dealing in medieval symbols.” Psychoanalysis, he added, “has something Bolshevik: internal police.” Nabokov had similarly vehement opinions about a host of writers: Dostoevsky was “a journalist, like Balzac,” and “Camus is a third-rate novelist.” He admired Hemingway’s short stories, but he thought his novels were “abominable.” Of Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak, Nabokov derided Dr. Zhivago as “a sorry thing, full of clichés, clumsy, trivial and melodramatic.” J.D. Salinger, though, was “a great, wonderful writer—the best American novelist.” When asked what other career he might have chosen “if the muse failed,” Nabokov suggested a lepidopterist, chess grandmaster, or a “tennis ace with an unreturnable service.”

>> No.13979074

>>13979057

Uninspired book cover. Nabokov would have hated it.

>> No.13980165

I see that many of his Russian newspaper reviews are there, that's great. I've read them almost 20 years ago, and it has really affected me. Him mocking Freudism in “What Should Everyone Know?”, or Socialist Realism (along with other ideological chains for art of past and future) in “The Triumph of Virtue” are good examples of how to be an individual.

> the rant about Mickey M. from “Camera Obscura” still hasn't been translated into English
Pussies.

>> No.13980202

Also, a random great link:
“The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov's Art and the Worlds of Science” by Stephen H. Blackwell
https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/37915/1/Blackwell_Book4CD.pdf