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This novel, like Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the Narcissus, shows how heady a wine the English language may be for a foreign writer of parts who has thoroughly acquired it. Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov's second novel in English (he has written seven in Russian), is one of the most intelligent nightmares of dictatorship in modern fiction. It is also a lip-smacking over the flavors of English prose to rouse the tired syntax in 10,000 editorials. Nabokov's style glimmers with reflections of many great styles (Gogol's, Flaubert's, Joyce...
...sunny morning a little knot of white students gathered at the gas station across San Pedro Street from the school. Waving placards lettered "No Nigger Wanted," they hoisted two effigies to a lamppost, urged students to cut classes and join the picket line. Soon 600 of Fremont's 2,900 students were out on strike, 200 of them milling through San Pedro Street...
...right, son," replied Old Gene. "But son, go easy on that white-primary bill. They got a nigger fireman down here...
...legislature convened they jammed the galleries, carrying paper bags full of lunch. They jostled each other, talked loudly, and spat tobacco juice on the marble walls. They damned Governor Arnall. Bawled one: "Say, did you hear they give Arnall a medal at Noo Orleens for bein' the biggest nigger-lovin' governor Georgy ever had?" As the session dragged on, many took off their coats and slept...
...wretched, sick and snarling little man. But he had the voice of a brass trumpet blaring venom and racism. "I call upon every red-blooded white man to use any means to keep the nigger away from the polls," he had screamed. He had a name that sounded like the chugging of a bullfrog: Bilbo...