Coming to grips with Dostoevsky at all means coming to grips with the other half of the burden of art, … More
Tag: Nabokov
46. (Vladimir Nabokov)
Not only does it not matter that the Pale Fire poem is not any good, but it needs not to be any … More
45. (Vladimir Nabokov)
In his or her one or two or possibly three successful novels, the really great novelist manages to place before … More
14. (John Ruskin)
The twentieth-century author most often summoned as the sibylline guide to the depths of Ruskin’s oeuvre is Proust. Guy Davenport, … More
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