Seems he was equally as eloquent when speaking English too. Here is is discussing Lolita on TV. Very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldpj_5JNFoA
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Seems he was equally as eloquent when speaking English too. Here is is discussing Lolita on TV. Very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldpj_5JNFoA
It's stunning. I cannot comprehend how a mind can learn a language to such an advanced stage that it can produce a work so beautifully written as Lolita. I wish I could write in English like Nabokov !
This from Stephen King has always tickled me:
I'm the literary equivalent of a big mac and fries.
Hello everybody, I'm Hugo. Why am I here? Hmm, I work in the advertising industry as a translator (German -> English) and a copywriter. BUT I'm here because in my spare time I am writing my own stuff...