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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nabokov? You mean that guy from The Police song?

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hey - don’t stand so close to me.

    Nabokov is fun, because he had an opinion on basically every author ever. If you feel frustrated about something you read in an English class, you can probably find an essay by Nabokov reading that author as filth.

    “Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre- Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human English words expressing several, although by no means all, aspects of poshlost are, for instance,” cheap," “sham,” “smutty,” “highfalutin,”“in bad taste.” dignity - all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of “sinning their way to Jesus" or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, "spilling Jesus all over the place.”

    Like c’mon man - if you don’t feel something reading the Grand Inquisitor in Karamazov - are you human?

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