Does anybody come close to the prose of Nabokov?
>>24935477Prose is for midwits.
>>24935486The joy of reading is not derived from plot alone
>>24935486dont you have a gundam to build
>>24935477Jack Vance
>Conrad knew how to handle readymade English better than I; but I know better the other kind. He never sinks to the depths of my solecisms, but neither does he scale my verbal peaks.
Why is Nabokov so praised for his prose when Dickens and Carlyle exist?
>>24935598DEI hire
>>24935598What works of titillating pedophilia have Dickens or Carlyle written?
>>24935477His prose is quite overrated. You can tell he's more a of learned writer than a natural
>>24935637This
>>24935477His Prose insists on itself
>>24935675>>>/tv/ and stay there
>>24935675>pretentious way of calling something pretentiousAre ya fitting in yet, son?
>>24935477According to himself, Joyce was better.>Let people compare me to Joyce by all means, but my English is patball to Joyce's champion game. A genius.
>>24935598>>24935637yea, but he's still very good
>>24935477Joyce.Nabokov's prose has that ponderous Russian feel. Joyce's prose reads like a breeze.
>>24936145>>24936174based
I’ve always felt there’s something very artificial about Nab’s writing. It’s good, but in a sterile sense. Not much in the sense of raw emotion or human spirit seems to be present in his works.
>>24935594That's interesting, I remember a passage that made it sound like he rejected Conrad entirely as a somewhat juvenile romantic teller of tall tales.
>>24935692I wouldn't say "insists on itself" is pretentious, it's actually a transparent, pointed phrase, which is why it became meme and stayed in people's minds.
>>24935637filtered. his prose is full linguistic and stylistic ideas, something you can't really learn. You can learn to use the thesaurus and whip up needlessly complex sentences, but not the creation of original, memorable images, metaphors and the like...
>>24935477He says Joyce ("my English is patball to Joyce's champion game") and Tolstoy ("incomparable prose artistry") (in Russian) are better
>>24935477Melville, Flaubert, Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Conrad mog him
>>24935598>Dickens
>>24936921So did goatse
>>24937024His wit, imagery, and metaphors are top tier
>>24936724i understand what you mean and what others mean when they call him a “learned writer”. but who would you say does present raw emotion in their works?
Lolita
>>24937075No they are not
>>24935551kek
>>24937090A lot of the Russians, funny enough.
>>24937024Underrating Dickens is a sign of low iq.
>>24935477Not much of a prose-fag, but I enjoy Bernhards prose more than that of Nabokov. Its so lyrical and so introspective schizophrenic.
have you guys read the peregrine? awesome prose
>>24935486>t. german
>>24936921>the masses are sincere and in touch with their own intellectual blind-spots. the masses would never stoop to such self-refuting levels. the masses would never betray me.you may want to sit down for this
>>24936724>raw emotion or human spirittrite phrases that describe trite works. nabokov is simply trying to achieve different effects than any easily recognizable sentimentality or a cheap stab at any stomach, and very frequently the effects that his narrators are trying to achieve are confused with his own intent.
>>24938547>trying to achieve certain effectsYuck
>>24937685no but i always heard good things
>>24937167Can't underrate someone as massively overrated as Dickens. No wonder nitwits love him.
Easily surpassed.
