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...especially appealing to university students in the advanced countries, who are cruelly confronted with the modern problem of "identity." Never was a society so opaque to its young. Unlike the peasant's son, or even the merchant's son, today's young may be unable to grasp precisely what their fathers do. What is it like to be a corporation executive, an advertising copywriter, a designer of computers...
...excuse artistic self-indulgence, sheer gush, or at best the refined outpourings of private feeling. None of these excesses apply to Nabokov. Few writers have brought to the practice of art for art's sake?or indeed to thematic literature?the enormous talent and discipline, the overwhelming intellectual grasp, the scrupulously objective range of eye and ear that Nabokov commands...
Nabokov's own grasp of the organic union between world and world, between observation and inspiration, goes back...
...Madison Avenue designs for them, a generation which grooves to the music of whatever group Columbia Records' promotion department spends the most money on each month. But sometimes, I get a feeling that it could be different. Maybe the people around here are real enough and human enough to grasp the significance of this music and the lives which created it. If they could just hear it, and learn about...
...would like every writer to be either a natural reaconteur or a mystic. Partly, this is because the role goes with the job, as the priest's garb goes with his--we want assurance that the author is inspired. Partly, it is because personality is something we can grasp and bring down to earth: if we can possess the personality, perhaps we can possess the inspiration. The poet-priest is sacred; no one (now) would dare be hostile to Borges...