Friday, June 1, 2007

The Genius of Nabokov

Tim O'Brien Angelle of Books Taste Good (devour books. poop words.) is reading Lolita, and had this to say:

Nabokov's writing is lyrical, intelligent, coherent - although obsessive, it is also collected, thus depicting Humbert Humbert as someone, although objectively lecherous, completely sympathetic. I find some of the passages simultaneously disturbing yet erotic. Does that make me a pervert, or does that make Nabokov a great writer?

Which I sorta tried saying here.

2 comments:

Karissa Chen said...

Thanks for your comment! I do really love this book though. I liked the passages you picked out too. Really lyrical and beautiful.

By the way, my name isn't Tim O'Brien, I'm just reading his short stories concurrently. :)

Good blog you got going here. I'll definitely be checking in!

Anonymous said...

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