February 2012
6 posts
College Blogging: My Third Nabokov Blog. →
college-blogging:
Have you ever read a novel and decided that it was your favorite within the first…60 pages, maybe? I started to read Lolita recently and I’ve found that I love this novel even more than The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. I will say though, Lolita isn’t exactly for everyone, or perhaps it is?
Basically you have this older man that falls in love with, basically, a child. The...
“If you are not loved, but do not know for sure whether a potential rival is...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, The Eye
(via musingsofalibertine)
“Ada stood with her back against the back of a tree, like a beautiful spy who has...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor (via kitandport)