I finished Nabokov's "Pnin" last night.

What a delight it was! Funny, clever, and oddly moving.

I would recommend getting hold of the Everyman's Library edition, as the introduction by David Lodge is both informative and perceptive.

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Esperad, esperad, ¿que yo critico a Dostoyevski? ESTO es criticar a Dostoyevski.

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Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian

https://twitter.com/haravayin_hogh/status/2003299405907247502

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This most recent notebook I've dedicated to "Things I Detest" a la Nabokov, who cheerily shares some of what he detests in a 1965 interview at around the 17:56 mark.

When he lists different types of music (inflicted music, next-room music, portable music), I never related to anything so much in my life.

And I thought . . . well, you don't have a to be a literary genius to compile a notebook of things that you detest.

And I've done this before -- as a highly sensitive person, it's cathartic to write about that which causes discomfort.

But I'll probably also start a notebook listing things that I love.

So far, my list includes "appliances that beep," "when it rains, but not enough to justify an umbrella," and "being in-between books."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8OwyqvSh2g

Vladimir Nabokov great authors from the Time Reading Program / [1965]
1 print ; sheet 44 x 56 cm (poster format) | Poster shows a black-and-white portrait of Vladimir Nabokov (taken by photographer Henry Grossman) beside a color reproduction of Nabokov's book "Bend Sinister".

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https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014649605/

📖 VLADIMIR NABOKOV

Le Guetteur
Traduit de l'anglais par Georges Magnane
Folio/Gallimard

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I absolutely love the way Nabokov depicts a dreamy woman in GLORY. He describes her skirt being "pressed against her knees by the same breeze that had once filled Ulysses' sails." Perfect. No notes.

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