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Vladimir Nabokov: Strong Opinions Vladimir Nabokov: Strong Opinions Vladimir Nabokov: Strong Opinions

In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabokov ranges over his life, art, education, politics, literature, movies, and modern times, among other subjects. Strong Opinions offers his trenchant, witty, and always engaging views on everything from the Russian Revolution to the correct pronunciation of Lolita.

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Penguin, London, 2012
304 oldal · ISBN: 9780141924144
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Vintage, London, 2011
368 oldal · ISBN: 9780307788078
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Vintage, London, 1990
338 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780679726098

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Népszerű idézetek

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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

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Why did you write Lolita ?
It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message; I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions.

14. oldal

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I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings.

40. oldal

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One of the greatest pieces of charlatanic, and satanic, nonsense imposed on a gullible public is the Freudian interpretation of dreams.

40. oldal

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My complete switch from Russian prose to English prose was exceedingly painful- like learning anew to handle things after losing seven or eight fingers in an explosion.

47. oldal

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I believe in stressing the specific detail; the general ideas can take care of themselves.

48. oldal

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A work of art has no importance whatever to society.

28. oldal

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[…] do you believe in God?
[…] I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

38. oldal

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Ulysses towers over the rest of Joyce's writings, and in comparison to its noble originality and unique lucidity of thought and style the unfortunate Finnegan's Wake is nothing but a formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book, a persistent snore in the next room, most aggrevating to the insomniac I am.

61. oldal


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