Word: nabokovs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this latest film, but by playfulness. Bunuel manipulates a half-dozen engaging characters in an ironic world of distorted time and confused identity, creating a witty and eloquent phantasma. Bunuel has become an aesthete, but he retains his expressiveness. At age seventy-two, he has become the screen's Nabokov...
...Curators Jane Livingstone and Marcia Tucker, written, alas, in the impacted duckspeak of art magazines (sample: "There is a singular combining of the purely somatic and the archly conceptualized and verbal in his aesthetic cognitions"). Nauman's intellect and methods are favorably compared with those of Vladimir Nabokov, Jasper Johns and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Even Leonardo da Vinci is hauled in to serve as an artistic ancestor. The aim of this coercive litany is to persuade doubters that Nauman is a home-grown successor to Marcel Duchamp, whose every pun and jeu d'esprit, no matter how limp, must...
...about the spirit, the soul? No man can serve two masters. I still prefer the old religious ethic and Goethe's Werther to Nabokov's Lolita...
TRANSPARENT THINGS by Vladimir Nabokov. The great novelist in a clever book about a publisher who strangles his wife while he is asleep...
...opening for emerging dwarfs." The plumbing in an old hotel is like a whining, stupid pet that tries to follow one out of the lavatory. For all its naughtiness, Transparent Things is also an autumnal, even philosophical work-a feat, considering the book's brevity, even for Nabokov. Apparently finished with the luxuriant digressions of Ada, he is impatient to confront the mysteries of art and death and human folly that have always preoccupied...