Word: nabokov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stand in some inchoate manner for mankind, that abstraction imprisoned on "the crazy ball flying through space which if you care or have to think of it is an enormity verging on, no, surpassing outrage." At this level of ambition, The Paper Men invites unfortunate comparisons with Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, the best and funniest work yet on the usurpation of a creative mind. Golding's book cannot match the Nabokovian magic; it is a random collection of jigsaw pieces jumbled together from different puzzles. -By Paul Gray...
...past, that journey was arduous and often tragic for Soviet exiles, particularly for those poets and writers who fled their country after the 1917 Revolution. A few, like Vladimir Nabokov, joined the mainstream of modern literature and enriched it. A handful returned in desperation to the Soviet Union, only to perish hi Stalin's camps, like the eminent critic Dmitri Mirsky, or by suicide, as in the case of the great idiosyncratic poet Marina Tsvetayeva. Many remained stranded on alien shores where their writing disappeared with scarcely a trace...
...gave a little concrete advice to aspiring playwrights. "You have to sit down and write...I mean, Nabokov wrote standing up," Shepard says, eliciting a big laugh...
NONFICTION: Eleni, Nicholas Gage The Forties, Edmund Wilson ∙The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, William Manchester Lectures on Don Quixote, Vladimir Nabokov ∙A Private View, Irene Mayer Selznick ∙White Mischief, James...
NONFICTION: Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman Eleni, Nicholas Gage ∙Frida, Hayden Herrera ∙ Lectures on Don Quixote, Vladimir Nabokov Salvador, Joan Didion ∙ White Mischief, James...