I love pictures new and old, so i tried to find some interresting ones of our author:
I love the picture where Nabokov is turning around and looking at the camera, i thought that was really cool.
*The picture where he is walking was taken in 1965 with his Wife.
Sexson had mentioned this in class but i still find it so impressive that two of Nabokov's texts are on the list of The Modern Library 100 Best Novels, with Lolita at #4 and Speak Memory at #8. To have two novels on a list like that just blows my mind. The novel Lolita was banned in France and censored in the USA till 1958. Since it was published in 55 i suppose the fact that it got uncensored in such a short amount of time is pretty impressive.
Quotes from Nabokov:
*A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
*Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
*Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
*I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
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