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This book was good.

>> No.12947758
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>>12947215

>> No.12947762

>>12947215
very good, even

>> No.12947907

>protagonist is a cuck

>> No.12947917

>>12947215
> pretending anyone reads his Russian period works

Anyway, it's one of the best books to nurture disdain for transitory hubbub.

>> No.12948005

>protagonist is a cuck

>> No.12948105

>>12947215
What was good about it? I thought it was flat, all chapters doing the same thing, again and again.
And all for a contrived alegory of some metaphysical concept.

>> No.12948412

>>12947215
>A Novel by the author of Lolita
This is so gay and insulting to put on the cover of an established great. Fucking philistine capitalist retards, shut the fuck up.

>> No.12948417

>>12947758
Author still lurking here?

>> No.12948760

>>12947917
It's the first book of Nabokov's that I've read. Honestly, I wrote him off because of Lolita but this makes me want to read more of his stuff.

>>12947907
>>12948005
It's a metaphor for how we all get cucked by death eventually dweebshit.

>> No.12948782

>>12948412

this

>> No.12949520

>>12947215
I had the feeling that Nabokov did Kafka but better in this one. But I hate Kafka so I might be a bad judge;

>> No.12950156

>>12947215
>Trying to imitate Dostoevskys insights of false execution
Nabokov is such a pathetic worm

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>>12948760
I did the same thing. Wrote the nab off, never read any of his books.
Then one day, I found the nab meme format. I still never read his books but I enjoy the meme and the fake character I envision Nabokov to be in my mind. I've started reading his strong opinions though.

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>>12950170

>> No.12950203

Vladimir, Nabokov

A flustered troubadour who nobody listened to. His baroque style invokes he futility of l’art pour art. Lolita: liked it, cagey, cunning. Invitation to a Beheading: dollar store Kafka imitation. Best burnt while roasting marshmallows.

>> No.12950592

>>12947215
Has he written anything that wasn't good?
Everything I've read so far as been great.

>>12950203
>cunning
heh

>> No.12951676

>>12947215
Great prose, fun to read as a sort of romp in a dream with a very frustrated and sad dreamer. It was pretty repetitive looking back but it's still short enough to read in a couple days so that didn't bother me much.
When I was curious about whether "gnostical turpitude" was nonsense or a riddle, I read a theory that it means "knowledge of good and evil," i.e. Cincinnatus was being executed for original sin. I like that interpretation.

>> No.12952726

>>12947215
im waiting for +1 To A Behaeading

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12952743

>tfw nobody invited you to the beheading

>> No.12954270

>>12948105
You seem to believe it's mere fantasy, don't you?

>> No.12954278

>>12950195
Why is he so meme worthy?

>> No.12954282

>>12948412
Dawg it's probably a first edition, or a first English edition right after he blew up but before it's was generally acknowledged as an all-timer