Does an artist of the highest caliber writing about any subject matter mean that he is in any way endorsing said subject matter?
How illiterate fools accuse without ever bothering to read the author's books they criticize.
Nabokov's LOLITA was a savage critique of pedophilia, and a brilliant expose of 1950s America. And even if LOLITA was not a horrifying tragedy, it still would not make its author pro pedophilia or any other issue/cause/etc.
Nabokov was the true genius. One of the greatest artists in history of mankind. Freud was a fiction writer pretending to be a scientist.
The profound psychological insights of Nabokov in regards to the mental disorder of pedophilia (sexual addiction) prove to me that Nabokov was a far more qualified psychologist/psychiatrist/analyst than Freud ever was. And Nabokov's poetic language and turn of phrase are unparalleled. He is up there with Conrad, Shakespeare, Hemingway, et al.
I am driven to wonder how the author became so schooled in the comings and goings of the wicked & for that matter in the expressions of vileness he is reminded thereof...
Freud used cocaine a lot apparently & gave it to many to help them, hopefully not realising the harm it can do. Cocaine apparently fuels excessive sexual desire, amongst other anti social desires such as violence, lack of conscience etc. Whether the cocaine habit has anything to do with his theories could (and may have) filled many theses.. He has single handedly (having hidden the truth about the large numbers of victims of Paedophilia/incest amongst his patients as explained by Jennifer Arnold in her comment on here - great book on it called 'The Assault on Truth' by Masson which may well be banned, censored now given the vast censorship happening with far right governments worldwide) indoctrinated the Western and maybe whole, world with the 'science' that babies are sexual beings... Kinsey (was he a doctor or pretended to be?) in the 1950s told the world also that babies & very young children are sexual and have orgasms but of course, to 'discover' such 'facts' he and staff were found to have sexually abused many children which idea fills me with revulsion and anger naturally. Such sick minds have shaped society & increasingly it is clear that Paedophilia is part of everyday life for many of the richest in society who are. Satanists etc ie abuse, sacrifice babies and children to empower themselves. I hope this post has not offended anyone; the subject matter is stomach turning for any normal person of course. Legalised Paedophilia is the agenda of the World Economic Forum & other Globalists also; these billionaires including 'King' Charles, own huge parts of society form medicine to education and governments so school curriculums increasingly include pornographic materials taught to the very young as can be seen in some books for these children which show adults and children exploring each others bodies and more.
I'm dubious of "exposés" of 1950s America, especially coming from Leftist Jews. More like laying down the layers of a revisionist history as part of a larger texture of subversion of the Christian West.
The bravery of your honesty -- for the sake of open speaking/understanding, especially in risky contexts like this one -- continues to inspire me, thank you
When I contemplate the topics of fascination for ME that I would consider worthy of taking the time to write about , they are actually the contrary of my own inner moral world . They are ALL about revealing the unrevealable in any way other than through a narrative of life in time . After all , the medium must be the ONLY way to transmit the idea , and the idea must be not just worthy of transmitting , but seriously necessary . The result of the hero's journey . Freud supposedly knew that a lot of psychosis was based on criminal assault of vunerable children by parents and family members that were able to "hide" their acts behind the curtain of family structure . When this threatened to upend Freuds success , he recanted and went back to an idea that these women had "Fantasies " about having these acts of criminal and biological assault happen in their childhoods . For Nabakov to WRITE about this FACTUAL event in a fictional way , did the world a great service . As my mother's second husband said , now dead , " ALL MEN ARE PEDOPHILES " and I watched him focus on his two daughters in that way , and kept them at my summer home to experience safe childhood , when I was able to do so . One thing to take note is that once a person has passed that boundary of criminality , it does not matter if the object of focus is biologically related to you , or even your very own offspring . They are just gone , gone , gone into madness . ( That IS what it is . ) I do not believe that all men are pedophiles , human beings who are born as female ALSO do this kind of crime , and often are able to in even more veiled closeted reality , the root of it all is the same . A tumor for a brain and rotten pulp for a heart . I agree with the 2nd Smartest Guy in the World, below , other than really , the bravery of the author Nabokov to describe word for word what I have seen occur allowed me to understand the disease and attempt to prevent the fallout from this kind of insanity .
Stop calling him a grandfather . It is amazing how we give these people titles of family responsability , when they were the OPPOSITE of that . Recently , in the case of "Nurse Lucy ", the woman who was in a hospital killing premature babies with her knowledge of what not to do , I noticed that the doctor who did the forensics never once referred to her as a Nurse , and always , not even as a female , as a criminal and murderer . - "Fathers" " Husbands" do not kill their wives and children . Criminals do . At a very late date I had to face a inner family crime , and understand that IF my mother had gotten pregnant from a family members assault , I could have been the outcome of incest and would not have been able to have children , knowingly . Finally, facing that fact allowed me to see the seriousness of the crime , as when it becomes biologically written into life codes , its really really bad . To me , the definition of cult world . We decide to be selectively blind when there seem to be good reasons to stay quiet about things , but ultimately , there is no good reason to stay quiet , as Mr Nabakov so wisely decided many years ago .
I don’t know how else to refer him to. He was my biological grandfather. He’s in hell now with a millstone around his neck, I’m betting. My family gets embarrassed when I bring it up but I do anyway.
The question becomes: What can be done for the survivors? I'm very frustrated by PTSD "science," and am beginning to wonder if there is no real deliverance once your brain is damaged. Mine is, for sure. I grew up in a terror-of-incest household with no father but rampant accusations of having been not only complicit in pedophilia but PAID for it from the age of 6. Soul murder. When I told my father, in a brawl, what I had put up with for so many years after he left, he said something that was so bizarre I may try to write a novella about it. He said: "Don't worry, you're not my type."
We conceal mostly, what goes on in our families. And we try to not be "victims." But then the whole thing kind of just sloshes around and the chains are never broken.
I speak up when I can. Labeled as a crazy conspiracy theorist for it. I got gangstaked after reporting a registered sex offender. I’d speak up again if I see it. I have an obligation to. My husband of 3 years is aware of my childhood trauma and very supportive. The mind control in my family still leaves me speechless often. I hope you write that novella some day. Thank you for being so honest.
The cause is neither insanity or a tumor for a brain or a rotten pulp for a heart. The criminals do what was done to them as children, often in near exact detail. It's passed down generation after generation, generally getting worse each time in the same way mercury poisoning is passed down generationally and grows stronger. But who started it? Who did it first? We don't know. But it can be stopped. If a child has a sympathetic "witness," according to psychoanalyst Alice MIller, that child won't pass on the behavior and it only takes one person to show genuine caring to a child -- as you did to the daughters of your mom's second husband. You made it at least possible for them not to pass it on. If a child has no such witness, according to Miller, they are doomed to pass it on.
And yes to stop it, it has to be brought to light and most families do the opposite, insisting the child be silent, while covering for the predator. Probably due to their own childhood experiences of sexual abuse. Sexual abuse is so common that it happens in most families. I don't think people are ready to discuss that yet, but that is ultimately how it will be stopped. It will never be stopped by pretending the crime originates in criminal rings that kidnap children Those exist and must be stopped -- but it originates at home. And ultimately the way to stop the rings is to stop the abuse at home. And that starts with admitting it.
When people seek admiration when they speak or write, it's a form of narcissism.
Attached to identity, the persona.
You and others write and speak for the truth, whatever it may seem at the time.
"The evolutionary psychologist William von Hippel found that humans use large parts of thinking power to navigate social world rather than perform independent analysis and decision making. For most people it is the mechanism that, in case of doubt, will prevent one from thinking what is right if, in return, it endangers one’s social status. This phenomenon occurs more strongly the higher a person’s social status. Another factor is that the more educated and more theoretically intelligent a person is, the more their brain is adept at selling them the biggest nonsense as a reasonable idea, as long as it elevates their social status. The upper educated class tends to be more inclined than ordinary people to chase some intellectual boondoggle. "
First, one reads Nabokov to enjoy his imagination, his intelligence, and sheer literary art. My own favorite among his novels is Pale Fire, but Lolita is an extraordinary indictment of what Americans call "the culture," of which Freud and Marx were the founding prophets. They were a pair of pseudo-scientific frauds who have caused immeasurable damage, the disgusting Kinsey being one of their most effective disciples.
Too much pointless political thought in this post and too little attention to the novel's literary merits or demerits. Modern political discussion, especially the crap surrounding communism, socialism, capitalism is ultimately a complete bore, spirit-killing bs.
YES indeed! And one thing to add...if any man had done , or even attempted any such thing to my son or daughter, it would cease to be a matter for discussion but a man hunt to execute any predator no matter who he/she was. Then Id be in jail, but worth it; let justice be served. Where are the men in this world, or mothers for tha matter who defend their children with the fierceness of a LION/ ESS?
Nabakov is there and useful because he reminds us of evil rather than buries it; his honesty does NOt bring the issue into become something GOOD, NO! Not like so many otther things right now..."Woe to them who call darkness light, who call good evil and evil good"... but exposition brings out the true warriors against it, or for it, and refuses to keep it is safe dark hidden ignorance. Jesus' death once forgotten, would bring and does bring all manner of activated evil as we see now in this world. BUT But and if humanity remembers that human sin requires such sacrifice, then we MUST remember and Stand, having done all to expose ,as Dr. Reisman did, ALL evil wherever it tries to establish itself; doing things in darkness requires exposing it to the light , and let the cockroaches flee...
I like Nabokov’s contempt for readers who must “identify” with characters in fiction. He couldn’t have identified much with his central characters I think. His feat in Lolita was in imagination and negative capability, the opposites of autobiography. He is not Humbert, in other words. But I dislike the novel intensely, despite the real achievement. The aesthetics are as treacly as the ethics. For me Nabokov’s prose is like drugstore perfume: showy and insistent and rotten. To compare, look at the fluency of Beckett in his early work, as masterful as Nabokov could ever be in English. Beckett decided to write in French to avoid the effortless fluency of his native tongue. It disgusted him. Beckett is the true artist; those dazzled by Nabokov are always suspect to me.
I agree with you that overly smooth style is annoying, but if it is in a language that is not your native, it is a feat. After I learned enough Russian to be able to read literature, it was refreshing to see that Dostoevsky's style was gritty and Tolstoy's awkward, which translations do not convey. On the other hand, you do not need to be fluent in any language to write Waiting for Godot. I will never understand its appeal.
Nabokov writing in English as he does is definitely a feat. No argument here. Give Beckett another try though if you can. Compare the spareness of Endgame--a stupendous masterpiece--to a late work he did write in English, Krapp’s Last Tape, my favorite. Godot is his least successful major work to me, by the way, so I see your point. His greatness is in the novel trilogy and the plays he wrote after Godot. Or so I say!
To answer the question that you deleted, Chekhov's style is crisp. In his Lectures on Russian Literature, Nabokov writes ''... we might list the greatest artists in Russian prose thus: first, Tolstoy; second, Gogol; third, Chekhov; fourth, Turgenev. This is rather like grading students' papers and no doubt Dostoevsky and ....are waiting at the door of my office to discuss their low marks.'' On Chekhov's technique Nabokov writes: ''Exact and rich characterization is attained by careful selection and careful distribution of minute but striking features, with perfect contempt for the sustained descriptions, repetition, and strong emphasis of ordinary authors.'' The author of the NYT review remarks:" Much of this description, even the phrase 'exact and rich characterization,' and especially 'perfect contempt,' seems more appropriate to the spirit of Nabokov's writing than to Chekhov's." https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/nabokov-lectures.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
I deleted the question because I remembered Nabokov’s remarks on Chekhov so badly. He is full of just praise for him. Like this: “Chekhov will live as long as there are birchwoods and sunsets.” Thanks for your reply!
One more: “Chekhov’s books are sad books for humorous people; that is, only a reader with a sense of humor can really appreciate the sadness.” Perfect! And this is true of Beckett as well--both are comic writers about sadness.
just read his life, never heard of him before ... definitely, not one of those sickos ... most likely the sickos attack him and spread all those bs ... being against freud theory is anathema to these people, they have worked so hard to cultivate those things ....
Although I learned in theory of literary criticism w Susan fishman, that one ought not to mistake the author for her narrative voice, when she had us read Burroughs I never heard the child molester aspect of the narrator in his works, it took my housemate telling me how he- Burroughs- liked little boys, for me to get that I had missed this glaring aspect in his writing, wether the narrative or the author s sentiment...
I was struck by the novelty of the word usage and poetry, which flowered over the pedophilia, the deplorable corruption of our world by those who can.
Thanks for pointing to the video of Egyptian artifacts and the videographer's running commentary about what could and could not have been accomplished the way traditional archeology says.
Does an artist of the highest caliber writing about any subject matter mean that he is in any way endorsing said subject matter?
How illiterate fools accuse without ever bothering to read the author's books they criticize.
Nabokov's LOLITA was a savage critique of pedophilia, and a brilliant expose of 1950s America. And even if LOLITA was not a horrifying tragedy, it still would not make its author pro pedophilia or any other issue/cause/etc.
Why respond to the barbarians?
I would like to just add this:
Nabokov was the true genius. One of the greatest artists in history of mankind. Freud was a fiction writer pretending to be a scientist.
The profound psychological insights of Nabokov in regards to the mental disorder of pedophilia (sexual addiction) prove to me that Nabokov was a far more qualified psychologist/psychiatrist/analyst than Freud ever was. And Nabokov's poetic language and turn of phrase are unparalleled. He is up there with Conrad, Shakespeare, Hemingway, et al.
reminds me of this verse...The wicked strut about on every side When vileness is exalted among the sons of men. pslam 28
I am driven to wonder how the author became so schooled in the comings and goings of the wicked & for that matter in the expressions of vileness he is reminded thereof...
, and Lashley, et al.
Freud used cocaine a lot apparently & gave it to many to help them, hopefully not realising the harm it can do. Cocaine apparently fuels excessive sexual desire, amongst other anti social desires such as violence, lack of conscience etc. Whether the cocaine habit has anything to do with his theories could (and may have) filled many theses.. He has single handedly (having hidden the truth about the large numbers of victims of Paedophilia/incest amongst his patients as explained by Jennifer Arnold in her comment on here - great book on it called 'The Assault on Truth' by Masson which may well be banned, censored now given the vast censorship happening with far right governments worldwide) indoctrinated the Western and maybe whole, world with the 'science' that babies are sexual beings... Kinsey (was he a doctor or pretended to be?) in the 1950s told the world also that babies & very young children are sexual and have orgasms but of course, to 'discover' such 'facts' he and staff were found to have sexually abused many children which idea fills me with revulsion and anger naturally. Such sick minds have shaped society & increasingly it is clear that Paedophilia is part of everyday life for many of the richest in society who are. Satanists etc ie abuse, sacrifice babies and children to empower themselves. I hope this post has not offended anyone; the subject matter is stomach turning for any normal person of course. Legalised Paedophilia is the agenda of the World Economic Forum & other Globalists also; these billionaires including 'King' Charles, own huge parts of society form medicine to education and governments so school curriculums increasingly include pornographic materials taught to the very young as can be seen in some books for these children which show adults and children exploring each others bodies and more.
I'm dubious of "exposés" of 1950s America, especially coming from Leftist Jews. More like laying down the layers of a revisionist history as part of a larger texture of subversion of the Christian West.
Who is the Smartest Guy in the World?
God?
"I am drawn to people who don’t seek admiration when they speak or write." Worth a read for just this one sentence. Thanks.
The bravery of your honesty -- for the sake of open speaking/understanding, especially in risky contexts like this one -- continues to inspire me, thank you
Amen.
When I contemplate the topics of fascination for ME that I would consider worthy of taking the time to write about , they are actually the contrary of my own inner moral world . They are ALL about revealing the unrevealable in any way other than through a narrative of life in time . After all , the medium must be the ONLY way to transmit the idea , and the idea must be not just worthy of transmitting , but seriously necessary . The result of the hero's journey . Freud supposedly knew that a lot of psychosis was based on criminal assault of vunerable children by parents and family members that were able to "hide" their acts behind the curtain of family structure . When this threatened to upend Freuds success , he recanted and went back to an idea that these women had "Fantasies " about having these acts of criminal and biological assault happen in their childhoods . For Nabakov to WRITE about this FACTUAL event in a fictional way , did the world a great service . As my mother's second husband said , now dead , " ALL MEN ARE PEDOPHILES " and I watched him focus on his two daughters in that way , and kept them at my summer home to experience safe childhood , when I was able to do so . One thing to take note is that once a person has passed that boundary of criminality , it does not matter if the object of focus is biologically related to you , or even your very own offspring . They are just gone , gone , gone into madness . ( That IS what it is . ) I do not believe that all men are pedophiles , human beings who are born as female ALSO do this kind of crime , and often are able to in even more veiled closeted reality , the root of it all is the same . A tumor for a brain and rotten pulp for a heart . I agree with the 2nd Smartest Guy in the World, below , other than really , the bravery of the author Nabokov to describe word for word what I have seen occur allowed me to understand the disease and attempt to prevent the fallout from this kind of insanity .
Thank you for trying to help those girls. I had a very creepy grandfather and everyone is still pretending he wasn’t a pedophile .
AND ... PS , everyone was pretending he was a grandfather . They all knew he was a pedophile . This is collective projected madness .
I know. He was in the CIA& did a number on everyone’s mind along with the physical violation. We found letters about his work.
Stop calling him a grandfather . It is amazing how we give these people titles of family responsability , when they were the OPPOSITE of that . Recently , in the case of "Nurse Lucy ", the woman who was in a hospital killing premature babies with her knowledge of what not to do , I noticed that the doctor who did the forensics never once referred to her as a Nurse , and always , not even as a female , as a criminal and murderer . - "Fathers" " Husbands" do not kill their wives and children . Criminals do . At a very late date I had to face a inner family crime , and understand that IF my mother had gotten pregnant from a family members assault , I could have been the outcome of incest and would not have been able to have children , knowingly . Finally, facing that fact allowed me to see the seriousness of the crime , as when it becomes biologically written into life codes , its really really bad . To me , the definition of cult world . We decide to be selectively blind when there seem to be good reasons to stay quiet about things , but ultimately , there is no good reason to stay quiet , as Mr Nabakov so wisely decided many years ago .
I don’t know how else to refer him to. He was my biological grandfather. He’s in hell now with a millstone around his neck, I’m betting. My family gets embarrassed when I bring it up but I do anyway.
The question becomes: What can be done for the survivors? I'm very frustrated by PTSD "science," and am beginning to wonder if there is no real deliverance once your brain is damaged. Mine is, for sure. I grew up in a terror-of-incest household with no father but rampant accusations of having been not only complicit in pedophilia but PAID for it from the age of 6. Soul murder. When I told my father, in a brawl, what I had put up with for so many years after he left, he said something that was so bizarre I may try to write a novella about it. He said: "Don't worry, you're not my type."
We conceal mostly, what goes on in our families. And we try to not be "victims." But then the whole thing kind of just sloshes around and the chains are never broken.
I speak up when I can. Labeled as a crazy conspiracy theorist for it. I got gangstaked after reporting a registered sex offender. I’d speak up again if I see it. I have an obligation to. My husband of 3 years is aware of my childhood trauma and very supportive. The mind control in my family still leaves me speechless often. I hope you write that novella some day. Thank you for being so honest.
Thank you for your voice and honesty....it is important and valued here..... I can relate to you......😘
Not just bizarre, but creepy. (It is times like this that make me realize as good as my vocabulary may be, it could be better.)
& bullying me , that’s what the bad guys do, don’t be like them, please. You’re lucky i confided that information here at all.
I think our brains are permanently altered. But I also think that’s why I question everything and seek the truth
I fear this may be true. I am exhausted from trying to repair my brain. I've made some progress but not too much.
Undeserved empowerment and irresponsible response to such empowerment will event in corrupted actions .
He was evil and criminal and my biological grandfather, & you are a bit hard ass to communicate with.
The cause is neither insanity or a tumor for a brain or a rotten pulp for a heart. The criminals do what was done to them as children, often in near exact detail. It's passed down generation after generation, generally getting worse each time in the same way mercury poisoning is passed down generationally and grows stronger. But who started it? Who did it first? We don't know. But it can be stopped. If a child has a sympathetic "witness," according to psychoanalyst Alice MIller, that child won't pass on the behavior and it only takes one person to show genuine caring to a child -- as you did to the daughters of your mom's second husband. You made it at least possible for them not to pass it on. If a child has no such witness, according to Miller, they are doomed to pass it on.
And yes to stop it, it has to be brought to light and most families do the opposite, insisting the child be silent, while covering for the predator. Probably due to their own childhood experiences of sexual abuse. Sexual abuse is so common that it happens in most families. I don't think people are ready to discuss that yet, but that is ultimately how it will be stopped. It will never be stopped by pretending the crime originates in criminal rings that kidnap children Those exist and must be stopped -- but it originates at home. And ultimately the way to stop the rings is to stop the abuse at home. And that starts with admitting it.
When people seek admiration when they speak or write, it's a form of narcissism.
Attached to identity, the persona.
You and others write and speak for the truth, whatever it may seem at the time.
"The evolutionary psychologist William von Hippel found that humans use large parts of thinking power to navigate social world rather than perform independent analysis and decision making. For most people it is the mechanism that, in case of doubt, will prevent one from thinking what is right if, in return, it endangers one’s social status. This phenomenon occurs more strongly the higher a person’s social status. Another factor is that the more educated and more theoretically intelligent a person is, the more their brain is adept at selling them the biggest nonsense as a reasonable idea, as long as it elevates their social status. The upper educated class tends to be more inclined than ordinary people to chase some intellectual boondoggle. "
-Sasha Latypova
First, one reads Nabokov to enjoy his imagination, his intelligence, and sheer literary art. My own favorite among his novels is Pale Fire, but Lolita is an extraordinary indictment of what Americans call "the culture," of which Freud and Marx were the founding prophets. They were a pair of pseudo-scientific frauds who have caused immeasurable damage, the disgusting Kinsey being one of their most effective disciples.
Too much pointless political thought in this post and too little attention to the novel's literary merits or demerits. Modern political discussion, especially the crap surrounding communism, socialism, capitalism is ultimately a complete bore, spirit-killing bs.
YES indeed! And one thing to add...if any man had done , or even attempted any such thing to my son or daughter, it would cease to be a matter for discussion but a man hunt to execute any predator no matter who he/she was. Then Id be in jail, but worth it; let justice be served. Where are the men in this world, or mothers for tha matter who defend their children with the fierceness of a LION/ ESS?
Nabakov is there and useful because he reminds us of evil rather than buries it; his honesty does NOt bring the issue into become something GOOD, NO! Not like so many otther things right now..."Woe to them who call darkness light, who call good evil and evil good"... but exposition brings out the true warriors against it, or for it, and refuses to keep it is safe dark hidden ignorance. Jesus' death once forgotten, would bring and does bring all manner of activated evil as we see now in this world. BUT But and if humanity remembers that human sin requires such sacrifice, then we MUST remember and Stand, having done all to expose ,as Dr. Reisman did, ALL evil wherever it tries to establish itself; doing things in darkness requires exposing it to the light , and let the cockroaches flee...
Some view the entire novel as an allegory, with Humbert being Old Europe and Lolita being America.
That's interesting. Never hear that.
I like Nabokov’s contempt for readers who must “identify” with characters in fiction. He couldn’t have identified much with his central characters I think. His feat in Lolita was in imagination and negative capability, the opposites of autobiography. He is not Humbert, in other words. But I dislike the novel intensely, despite the real achievement. The aesthetics are as treacly as the ethics. For me Nabokov’s prose is like drugstore perfume: showy and insistent and rotten. To compare, look at the fluency of Beckett in his early work, as masterful as Nabokov could ever be in English. Beckett decided to write in French to avoid the effortless fluency of his native tongue. It disgusted him. Beckett is the true artist; those dazzled by Nabokov are always suspect to me.
I agree with you that overly smooth style is annoying, but if it is in a language that is not your native, it is a feat. After I learned enough Russian to be able to read literature, it was refreshing to see that Dostoevsky's style was gritty and Tolstoy's awkward, which translations do not convey. On the other hand, you do not need to be fluent in any language to write Waiting for Godot. I will never understand its appeal.
Nabokov writing in English as he does is definitely a feat. No argument here. Give Beckett another try though if you can. Compare the spareness of Endgame--a stupendous masterpiece--to a late work he did write in English, Krapp’s Last Tape, my favorite. Godot is his least successful major work to me, by the way, so I see your point. His greatness is in the novel trilogy and the plays he wrote after Godot. Or so I say!
To answer the question that you deleted, Chekhov's style is crisp. In his Lectures on Russian Literature, Nabokov writes ''... we might list the greatest artists in Russian prose thus: first, Tolstoy; second, Gogol; third, Chekhov; fourth, Turgenev. This is rather like grading students' papers and no doubt Dostoevsky and ....are waiting at the door of my office to discuss their low marks.'' On Chekhov's technique Nabokov writes: ''Exact and rich characterization is attained by careful selection and careful distribution of minute but striking features, with perfect contempt for the sustained descriptions, repetition, and strong emphasis of ordinary authors.'' The author of the NYT review remarks:" Much of this description, even the phrase 'exact and rich characterization,' and especially 'perfect contempt,' seems more appropriate to the spirit of Nabokov's writing than to Chekhov's." https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/18/specials/nabokov-lectures.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
I deleted the question because I remembered Nabokov’s remarks on Chekhov so badly. He is full of just praise for him. Like this: “Chekhov will live as long as there are birchwoods and sunsets.” Thanks for your reply!
One more: “Chekhov’s books are sad books for humorous people; that is, only a reader with a sense of humor can really appreciate the sadness.” Perfect! And this is true of Beckett as well--both are comic writers about sadness.
just read his life, never heard of him before ... definitely, not one of those sickos ... most likely the sickos attack him and spread all those bs ... being against freud theory is anathema to these people, they have worked so hard to cultivate those things ....
Has she read Flannery O'Connor?
Thank you for the clarification. I too was a little turned off when I realized who I was watching in the video. This further post helped.
I'm glad I never read Nabokov, especially Lolita.
Although I learned in theory of literary criticism w Susan fishman, that one ought not to mistake the author for her narrative voice, when she had us read Burroughs I never heard the child molester aspect of the narrator in his works, it took my housemate telling me how he- Burroughs- liked little boys, for me to get that I had missed this glaring aspect in his writing, wether the narrative or the author s sentiment...
I was struck by the novelty of the word usage and poetry, which flowered over the pedophilia, the deplorable corruption of our world by those who can.
I have to read this again when I can focus.
Interesting
Thanks for pointing to the video of Egyptian artifacts and the videographer's running commentary about what could and could not have been accomplished the way traditional archeology says.
Here's the direct link: https://seed131.bitchute.com/hBVb6bH0vUfA/8KDSrB1dOtya.mp4
A sparkling "self defense," not that you needed one.
Communists don't deserve any adulation, admiration, or anything else. Period!