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>doesn't like allegory
>likes the metamorphosis
How does that work?
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Read his "analysis" of metamorphosis, he doesn't even realize an allegory is there. It's literally worse than what you would expect from a disillusioned high schooler who didn't even read the book.
Nabokov is a pseud through and through, the only reason he was remembered is because he was edgy.
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>>24851460
"Allegory" generally has social or moral or philosophical connotation. The Metamorphosis is perhaps metaphorical, but it's not allegorical unless you're college student trying to pad out an essay.
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>>24851502
It's not an allegory retard.
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>>24851460
Schopenhauer clearly explains why allegory and categorical description is the path poetry needs to express Ideas and become sublime. Its not the case in pictorial or plastic art, but in writing allegory and metaphor are indispensable
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What's it an allegory for?
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Metamorphosis is expressionist not allegorical
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>>24851460
>"Nothing bores me more than political novels"
>writes Bend Sinister
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>>24851460
The Metamorphosis isn't an allegory.
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Would Nabokov have hated Joseph Heller?
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>>24851502
>because he was edgy.
He has the most mainstream views imaginable, how is he edgy?
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>>24851460
There's no allegory. Samsa just literally turned into a bug. Isn't that crazy? What a wacky situation to find oneself in!
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>>24851635
OwO
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>>24851625
then how come i relate to it so thoroughly despite never transforming into a bug?
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>>24851882
Off yourself.
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>>24851502
This.
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>>24851882
live, have a long and happy life!
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>>24851460
The NEET male is considered a disgusting bug in the eyes of humanity.
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>>24851833
>He has the most mainstream views imaginable
Objectively false. Which of your favorite author did he dislike?
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>>24851502
He's the finest prose stylist of the 20th century in any language. That's why we remember him.
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>>24852088
No he's not. Grow up.



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