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...Lyne's movie does not say very much, as opposed to the verbose Humbert of Nabokov's book. Indeed, Nabokov takes his book's basic plot and builds layer upon layer of meaning, drowning the story line in seductive word play which, amazingly, is able to lead the reader's attention away from the moral issues underlying the book. "Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth," Humbert says by way of indroduction in the book, providing us with a glimpse of the verbal...
Floating's strongest moments come in the opening and closing of the novel. Troy reaches out to capture her audience early, sending the reader quickly backward through layers of time and shifting smoothly and non-sequentially from one character to the next until the reader has become deeply familiar with each...
...that means), the book seems to revel in the artist's self-destruction and subsequent "fall from grace." Blending descriptions of the decadence of the New York affluent with block quotes from people who claim to have been close to Basquiat, the biography at least succeeds in giving a reader a sense of the hypocricy and egoism that must have caused Basquiat such emotional turmoil. In the end, the book leaves the reader with a greater understanding of Basquiat's circumstances and environment, but not so much an understanding of the man himself...
References hinting slightly at the protagonist's guilt emerge again throughout the novel. At one point K. refuses to confess, for example, causing the reader to wonder what he could possibly have to confess. At another time, when K. gets lost while searching for the court, he observes that he should be able to find the court automatically since he has been told that the court is attracted by guilt...
...abilities and generally pleased with his own behavior. Invited to the court for the first time, K. discovers with an emotion akin to condescension that it is located in a slum. Often showing scorn or disdain for those poorer than him, K.'s attitude seems designed to irritate the reader. The persona that emerges by the end is almost deserving of the troubles imposed on K. by the year-long trial and subsequent conclusion...