Vladimir Nabokov

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>"A work of art has no importance whatever to society," Vladimir
>Nabokov insisted. "It is only important to the individual, and only
>the individual reader is important to me."

Nabokov managed to pull off what Joyce and others could only muse
about: to awaken from the nightmare of history.


Walter Miale
w-vn@greenworldcenter.org

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