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Jules et Jim is one of the most famous celluloid love stories of all time. It is the story of a love triangle between...

Thanks; Inderjit is my actual name; I am Indian. It means conqueror of Indra.

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I'm not even going to mention what kind Google result, came about from that particular search. Chekhov certainly doesn't seem to be type of writer who deals with characters who urinate over food, as...

The "p" is sounded, that's all. But since the "p" is mute
in English words starting w-ith "pn", one is prone to insert a
supporting "uh" sound-- "Puh-- nin"-- which is wrong. To get
the "pn"...

Hi, I recently reviewd 'Pnin' by Nabokov, please let me know what you think:
http://notesfromzembla.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/pnin/

Speak, Memory- Nabokov. The Perodic Table-Primo Levi

Although I am a very big Tolkien fan, he may certainly qualify as the greatest fantasy writer of the 20th century, but as a writer, in my opinion, he is nowhere near the class of say, Nabokov, Joyce,...

Anton Chekhov (the master): 'The Lady With The Little Dog' 'About Love', 'The Kiss'.
Turgenev 'First Love'.
Nabokov 'Mary'.
Fitzgerald 'O Russet Witch'
Chateaubriand 'Atala and Rene'
Anything...

A bit ridiculous really. Jude Law as the physically unattractive Karenin?! Keira Knightley as Anna, who is beautiful, but is also quite curvaceous, and is beautiful in a "radiates inner beauty" more...

Nabokov never regarded Garnett, as 'competition' (for what exactly?, Nabokov was a writer first, and a translator second, and he never attempted to translate the same books as Garnett), I doubt that...

Nabokov, problably the most qualified commentator on translating Russian into English, despised Garnett, as did another seminal writer of both Russian and English literature, Joseph Brodsky.

To accuse Nabokov of being 'unprofound' is a bit ridiculous-N's novels have plenty of 'profoundity' to them, he just did not make it 'obvious'-he forced readers to read and to analyse, to fulfill...

Am currently re-reading Ada. It is a strange novel, even though it is beautifully written, it does not have the 'poetic' beauty of Speak, Memory, Pnin, Pale Fire and Lolita, and indeed the prevalence...

My favourite Japanese novel has to be 'Spring, Snow', by Yukio Mishima, it is an utterly beautiful novel, and the best, by some distance, of the whole tetralogy. The love story between Kiyokai and...

In terms of non-English literature, Proust is by far the master of metaphors. I faintly remember counting half a dozen in the first page alone.

Nabokov does make a constant habit of mocking 'Dusty' (Dostoevskii) in his works-I don't know about 'The Defense' as I have not read it (yet!), but 'Despair' is a classic example of him mocking...

I like his stories, in many ways they are interesting and original, but from what I have seen, his women rarely go beyond being anything but one-dimensional, sexy, smart, sexy, sexy, yes well you get...

I think that Nabokov's 'Pnin' also fits the bill very well, though I am not sure if Pnin has 'terrible social skills': it's just that the society which surrounds him is 'terrible' (and cruel and...

Anybody read 'Spring, Snow' by Yukio Mishima? A magnificent book, in my opinion, beautiful imagery, excellent characterisation and a well paced plot. The final few pages are haunting, and the love...

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Honestly, your knowledge and assessment of Nabokov's characters/works/artistic purposes is so ridiculously inaccurate, and inept, that I cannot believe you have really read his works, but...

Honestly, that is pathetic. 'Chastely revised'-it is all so surreal, and completely against what Nabokov stood for, as a writer! It sounds like something straight out of Charlotte Haze's book clubs!...

No, no, and thrice no-it is not "porn", in the normal sense of 'pornography'-it caricatures 'literary pornogrpahy'-Lolita is NOT about sex.

You forget Nabokov for Russia, James Baldwin for America, and Queneau, Perec, Gide and Robbe-Grillet fof France. British lit. can prob. claim Burgess and Graham Greene too.