opinions?just finished, thought it was good but nowhere as good as his other stuff
>>24732330One of the only Nabokov books so far I've been disappointed by. Maybe it was just my expectations going in but I thought the setting and story didn't fit his style as an author. Pseudo Kafka isn't what I think of when I think of Nabokov
>>24732607I've read it in russian and I kinda feel the same.Which one was your favorite?
>>24732330>nowhere as good as his other stuffdid you read bend sinister?
I am so smart.I am so smart.Smarter than all you people.Smarter than all society.You want to imprison me because I'm so smart.But your prisons can't touch my true freedom.Because I am so smart.
>>24732330>>24732607I was expecting pseudo-Kafka but was pleasantly surprised to find it be more of a spiritual parable. I liked in particular the section where Cinninatus is writing and Nanokov basically lays out his phenomenology of writing. It's not quite in his top tier, but it's a solid A
