“Good Readers and Good Writers” (from Lectures on Literature)Vladimir Nabokov (originally delivered in 1948)My course, among other things, is a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures."How to be a Good Reader" or "Kindness to Authors"—something of that sort ...
内容提示:“Good Readers and Good Writers” (from Lectures on Literature) Vladimir Nabokov (originally delivered in 1948) My course, among other things, is a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures. "How to be a Good Reader" or "Kindness to Authors"—something of...
"How to be a Good Reader" or "Kindness to Authors"—something of that sort might serve to provide a subtitle for these various discussions of various authors, for my plan is to deal lovingly, in loving and lingering detail, with several European Masterpieces. A hundred years ago, Flaubert ...
Reading his complaints half a century later, I have to say, I delight in them too. At a time when the literary world seems determined to swear that every book is Good because it is a Book, Nabokov’s outspoken anti-book opinions feel almost ecstatically transgressive. Well, I suppose no...
In hisLectures on Literature, Nabokov wrote that “great novels are great fairy tales.” Nabokov had also thought a good deal about fairy tales themselves, building subtexts incorporating their darker incarnations into his novels, from “Cinderella” inPninto “Der Erlkönig” inPale Fire. And ...
A darned-good juggler, Nabokov turns the seemingly trivial storyline into a thrilling puzzle, a page turner. Poor Franz arrives in the German capital to work with his well-off uncle and falls for his idle wife, Martha, 13 years his senior. Nabokov’s second novel written in Russian and ...
Good morning. I am ready. INTERVIEWER Your sense of the immorality of the relationship between Humbert Humbert and Lolita is very strong. In Hollywood and New York, however, relationships are frequent between men of forty and girls very little older than Lolita. They marry—to no particular pub...
Good Readers and Good Writers By Vladimir Nabokov "How to be a Good Reader" or "Kindness to Authors"—something of that sort might serve to provide a subtitle for these various discussions of various authors, for my plan is to deal lovingly, in loving and lingering detail, with several ...
Good Readers and Good Writers (from Lectures on Literature)Vladimir Nabokov (originally delivered in 1948)My course, among other things, is a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures."How to be a Good Reader" or "Kindness to Authors"—something of that sort might ...
ANNOTATING NABOKOV’S “GOOD READERS AND GOOD WRITERS”*ANNOTATION ADVICE FROM How to Mark a Book By Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.There are all kinds of devices for marking a book intelligently and fruitfully. Here's the way I do it: ∙Underlining (or highlighting): of major points, of ...