Vladimir Nabokov

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[SIGHTING] Borges on Nabokov
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Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Non-Fiction, edited by Eliot Weinberger, Penguin 1999
page 517, ch "Prologues to a Personal Library" :Fyodor Dostoevsky -"Demons"
Last paragraph:"In the preface to an anthology of Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov stated that he had not found one single page of Doestoevsky worthy of inclusion. This ought to mean that Doestoevsky should not be judged by each page but rather by the total of all the pages that comprise the book" (1985/EW)


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