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vladimir nabokov - Daily update ⋅ May 28, 2015 NEWS Washington Post: 'Nabokov in America' looks at how the country shaped the 'Lolita' novelist <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/nabokov-in-america-looks-at-how-the-country-shaped-the-lolita-novelist/2015/05/27/20bd2a56-008d-11e5-8b6c-0dcce21e223d_story.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjg1MDkyNDkwMDAwNzQ2NTg2OTIaMmFlNTU3NDczZmY4ODFhMzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGaZX9arOjhdaa1LSVEOxX2ot_uhw> - Michael Dirda <http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/michael-dirda> May 27 at 4:51 PM
“Nabokov in America: On the Road to 'Lolita' ” by Robert Roper. (Bloomsbury USA)
Robert Roper isn’t a specialist in the study of Vladimir Nabokov or his fiction. In fact, he is himself principally a novelist, though one who has also published a study of Walt Whitman and a biography of legendary mountain climber Willi Unsoeld. Still, as Roper says in the introduction to “ Nabokov in America <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802743633?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0802743633&linkCode=xm2&tag=thewaspos09-20> ,” he has loved his subject’s sometimes controversial books for 50 years, “especially the ones written while he lived in the United States.” The most famous of these is, of course, “ Lolita <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679723161?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0679723161&linkCode=xm2&tag=thewaspos09-20> ” (1955).
Today Nabokov’s early works, composed in his native Russian though later translated into English, tend to be respected rather than loved. “The Gift <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679727256?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0679727256&linkCode=xm2&tag=thewaspos09-20> ” (1938) has been called the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century, but most readers — this one included — find it hard slogging. The late books, starting with “Ada” (1968), tend to be overly fancy and precious, self-reflexive exercises appealing only to the most ardent devotees. In effect, these lesser works are European, whether composed by a young exile fleeing the Russian Revolution or a world-famous candidate for the Nobel Prize (which he never won). […]
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“Nabokov in America: On the Road to 'Lolita' ” by Robert Roper. (Bloomsbury USA)
Robert Roper isn’t a specialist in the study of Vladimir Nabokov or his fiction. In fact, he is himself principally a novelist, though one who has also published a study of Walt Whitman and a biography of legendary mountain climber Willi Unsoeld. Still, as Roper says in the introduction to “ Nabokov in America <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802743633?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0802743633&linkCode=xm2&tag=thewaspos09-20> ,” he has loved his subject’s sometimes controversial books for 50 years, “especially the ones written while he lived in the United States.” The most famous of these is, of course, “ Lolita <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679723161?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0679723161&linkCode=xm2&tag=thewaspos09-20> ” (1955).
Today Nabokov’s early works, composed in his native Russian though later translated into English, tend to be respected rather than loved. “The Gift <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679727256?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0679727256&linkCode=xm2&tag=thewaspos09-20> ” (1938) has been called the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century, but most readers — this one included — find it hard slogging. The late books, starting with “Ada” (1968), tend to be overly fancy and precious, self-reflexive exercises appealing only to the most ardent devotees. In effect, these lesser works are European, whether composed by a young exile fleeing the Russian Revolution or a world-famous candidate for the Nobel Prize (which he never won). […]
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