>doesn't like allegory>likes the metamorphosisHow does that work?
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.
>>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.
>>24851502It's not an allegory retard.
>>24851460Schopenhauer 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
What's it an allegory for?
Metamorphosis is expressionist not allegorical
>>24851460>"Nothing bores me more than political novels">writes Bend Sinister
>>24851460The Metamorphosis isn't an allegory.
Would Nabokov have hated Joseph Heller?
>>24851502>because he was edgy.He has the most mainstream views imaginable, how is he edgy?
>>24851460There's no allegory. Samsa just literally turned into a bug. Isn't that crazy? What a wacky situation to find oneself in!
>>24851635OwO
>>24851625then how come i relate to it so thoroughly despite never transforming into a bug?
>>24851882Off yourself.
>>24851502This.
>>24851882live, have a long and happy life!
>>24851460The NEET male is considered a disgusting bug in the eyes of humanity.
>>24851833>He has the most mainstream views imaginableObjectively false. Which of your favorite author did he dislike?
>>24851502He's the finest prose stylist of the 20th century in any language. That's why we remember him.
>>24852088No he's not. Grow up.
>>24852091Retard
>>24852034None that I know of and he's one of my favorite authors. Can you list a few of his supposedly fringe beliefs or opinions?
>>24851460When it's good it's good.
>>24852671Hating Dosto and many other acclaimed writers for starters...
>>24852912I guarantee you the vast majority of people would hate Dostoyevsky if they could be made to read him. Is having preferences what counts for edgy these days? I'd say Tolkien's dislike of Dune is more fringe even if he was completely right, and no one calls him edgy.
