Wikipedia entry on James Joyce
"Some scholars, most notably Vladimir Nabokov, have mixed feelings on his work, often championing some of his fiction while condemning other works. In Nabokov's opinion, Ulysses was brilliant,[70] Finnegans Wake horrible[71]—an attitude Jorge Luis Borges shared."
[70] ^ "When I want good reading I reread Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu or Joyce's Ulysses" (Nabokov, letter to Elena Sikorski, 3 August 1950, in Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings [Boston: Beacon, 2000], pp. 464–465). Nabokov put Ulysses at the head of his list of the "greatest twentieth century masterpieces" (Nabokov, Strong Opinions [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974] excerpt).
[71] ^ "Of course, it would have been unseemly for a monarch to appear in the robes of learning at a university lectern and present to rosy youths Finnigan's Wake [sic] as a monstrous extension of Angus MacDiarmid's "incoherent transactions" and ofSouthey's Lingo-Grande. . ." (Nabokov, Pale Fire [New York: Random House, 1962], p. 76). The comparison is made by an unreliable narrator, but Nabokov in an unpublished note had compared "the worst parts of James Joyce" to McDiarmid and to Swift's letters to Stella (quoted by Brian Boyd, "Notes" in Nabokov's Novels 1955–1962: Lolita / Pnin / Pale Fire [New York: Library of America, 1996], 893).

Fitst published in 1959, "The History of Occidental History" is more than a work of reference, it is a true compendium of world literature organized by one of our most famous literary critics..Otto Maria Carpeaux. In the pocket edition from LeYa (2011), his work has been distributed in ten volumes. A reference to Vladimir Nabokov appears in volume nine, entitled "As Tendências Contemporâneas por Carpeaux" "Contemporary Tendencies by Carpeaux"

He writes: "In America, where the books of Miller and Durrell had been banished by the censors for a long time, the naturalized Russian Nabokov managed to break down these barriers down because of his brilliant and fascinating style, with strong satirical lights, in a novel in which he tells the almost pathological love story about a child, "Lolita"

["Na América, onde durante tanto tempo os livros de Miller e Durrell estavam banidos pela censura, o russo naturalizado Nabokov conseguiu romper a barreira, pelo estilo brilhante e fascinante, com fortes luzes satíticas , em que contou a história de amor quase patológico à criança Lolita. Depois, houve muitos outros que, como John Updkike, desafiaram vitoriosamente o puritanismo, seu assunto preferido é a liberdade sexual na classe média. Função semelhante desempenhou a corajosa Anna Blaman no ambiente do puritanismo holandês. Mas os recursos da psicanálise também permitem uma radiografia satírica e fantástica das almas e da sociedade. Se Hjalmar Bergman tivesse surgido meio século antes, no tempo de Björnson, Ibsen, Brandes, Jacobsen e Strinberg, quando a literatura européia inteir falava escandinavo, o escritor sueco seria hoje dos mais conhecidos no mundo. Mas o norte da Europa recaiu, desde então, para posição provinciana; e o papel de Bergman na exploração da psicanálise para fins de realismo mágico é o de um precursos, de fama apenas nacional..."]