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...Nabokov...
...article and the box on Nabokov were positively brilliant. They had all the best features of writing. They were condensed, informative, amusing and so forth but they were something more: eloquent. The erudition, laughter and whimsy of Nabokov himself seems to have rubbed off on your reporters and writers...
...Everyone agrees that Nabokov is brilliant. However, to this admirer of his style, his novels are merely the best told dirty jokes the world has ever known...
...this century, Vladimir Nabokov, master of fiction and of chess (TIME cover, May 23), operates in somewhat the same manner. The film of one of his early works, Laughter in the Dark, eerily reproduces the commonplaces of experience but gives them an irrational tilt. The viewer who accepts the Nabokovian construction can experience an acute problem of reorientation when he steps from the theater into the world...
...through a guffawing audience for yet another glimpse of the girl. At last an assignation is arranged, an agreement extracted. In scenes of purest Feydeau farce, Sir Edward pursues Margot in and out of hallways and bedrooms split seconds before his wife's entrance. In the works of Nabokov, however, the demonic world is a mere turn of the page away...