Vladimir Nabokov: 10 quotes on his birthday
In his fiction, marked always by shimmering prose, he abjured the commonplace and portrayed madness, solipsism, sexual deviance, and individual ...
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Boston : MA : USA | Apr 23, 2012

"In his fiction, marked always by shimmering prose, he abjured the commonplace and portrayed madness, solipsism, sexual deviance, and individual consciousness in highly innovative and indelible ways. The influence of the Russian-born writer on American culture is perhaps most readily observed... Vladimir Nabokov, writer, metaphysician, lepidopterist, and chess aficionado, was born on April 22, 1899. In his fiction, marked always by shimmering prose, he abjured the commonplace and portrayed madness, solipsism, sexual deviance, and individual consciousness in highly innovative and indelible ways. The influence of the Russian-born writer on American culture is perhaps most readily observed in the ways in which "nymphet" and "Lolita" have gained fresh meaning in our lexicon. As the author once said, "I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more." - Rhoda Feng
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Images in Lolita: The River Styx | Vladimir Nabokov
Also belatedly, I'm posting about the use of the River Styx- and more broadly the use of water all together- as imagery in Lolita. “He did not use a fountain pen ...
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"Also belatedly, I’m posting about the use of the River Styx- and more broadly the use of water all together- as imagery in Lolita.
He did not use a fountain pen which fact, as any psychoanalyst will tell you, meant that the patient was a repressed undinist.  One mercifully hopes there are water nymphs in the Styx (250).” Water shows up frequently in Lolita, though I wasn’t too sure what to make of this.  Rivers, fountains, toilet flushes, but beyond this Nabokov uses watery imagery as a means for description often. The major water reference is the sea, where Nabokov first develops his passion for nymphets.  It is in the princedom by the sea that his interaction with Annabel starts, sparking the action of the rest of his life
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