Word: nabokovs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explain a Groucho Marx joke to someone who has never heard of Groucho Marx. In desperation Barthelme critics sometimes resort to the comparison gambit, frantically coupling their man with a host of others in the course of one review. The catalogue ranges from Dickens, Swift and Joyce to Kafka, Nabokov and Henry Miller...
Controversy over this year's awards concerns two books which were not mentioned, Neither Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint nor Vladimir Nabokov's Ada were nominated, although both books received great critical attention...