Word: spoofedâ
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...unfashionable notion that games can be both creative and profound. The essence of the Nabokov creative method is parody. His creatures are not symbols or branches snatched from The Golden Bough. But they are haunted by literary ancestors. Enjoying parody requires knowledge of the literary forms and fashions being spoofed???which is one reason why Nabokov is difficult. "He is not the kind of novelist," says Anthony Burgess, "whom you sit down to with a Scotch or an apple." In a rare moment of explicit self-exposure, Nabokov once explained: "While I keep everything on the very brink of parody...
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