6/20/2023 0 Comments ლოლიტა by Vladimir Nabokov![]() At another, he tabulated the rambling rumbles of Don Quixote as a tennis match (the Don taking it in four hard sets). ![]() Lolita is more austere than rapturous, as all writing is and I have come to see it, with increasing awe, as exactly the kind of novel that its predecessors are pointing towards.Īt one point, comparing himself to Joyce, Nabokov said: ‘my English is patball to champion game’. People who write one novel and then go back to journalism or accountancy (‘Louder, bitch!’) – they get carried away. ![]() Even pretty average writers never get carried away. Haven’t we been conditioned to feel that Lolita is sui generis, a black sheep, a bit of tasteful, indeed ‘beautiful’ erotica, and that Nabokov himself, with this particular novel, somehow got ‘carried away’? Great writers, however, never get carried away. ![]()
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