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Despair by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov

July 12, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Despair – 4/5 Literature is full of doubles. Whether this means the concept of foil characters who are designed to offset the lead character by contrast like Tybalt to Romeo or Fortinbras to Hamlet, twins and twinning, chiastic structures, repetitions in actions and plot, cycles of violence etc, or like literal doubles. In most of these stories where are actual double occurs we will get something like Mr Hyde as shadow-self to Dr Jeckyll or a trickster figure like in Dostoyevsky’s The Double and the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Vladimir Nabokov

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:366 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Vladimir Nabokov ·
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Speak, Memory

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

May 10, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Speak, Memory – 5/5 Stars Rereading this book for the first time in a few years and this time as an audiobook opened up the story, the writing, and the book overall in some positive ways. Nabokov has become for me not necessarily a favorite writer because I don’t like every single thing he’s written, and my love for his writing comes with some pitfalls (ahem, figuring out what exactly to do and feel about The Enchanter and Lolita), but my esteem for him as […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Vladimir Nabokov

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:216 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Vladimir Nabokov ·
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Bottom of the Barrel by Vladimir Nabokov

Nabokov's Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov

A Russian Beauty and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov

Details of a Sunset and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov

Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov

March 31, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

It’s always been true that most of Vladimir Nabokov’s literary output has been a family affair. Vera Nabokov was always his first reader, editor, “muse” and of course ran his life’s affair, as he was a kind classic European aristocratic effete, something he adored. In the United States, he was of course no better. These stories might be the most family affair as not only did Vladimir translate all of them with his son Dmitry, who also translated most of Nabokov’s Russian writing with his […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Vladimir Nabokov

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:140 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Vladimir Nabokov ·
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Bringing Life to the Story

The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman

March 27, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

I’m not usually one to knock people’s tastes in problematic art. Chinatown is my all-time favorite movie and I’d be hard pressed to never watch it again. So it’s tough for me to judge. Which doesn’t mean that automatically immunizes me from criticism. I may be a “You do you” person but I also believe we should be critiquing our tastes at all time and remember that many of them come at a cost. I read Lolita when I was an 18-year old college freshman. I’d like to say […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #biography, Lolita, Sally Horner, Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita, true crime, Vladimir Nabokov

Jake's CBR14 Review No:40 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #biography, Lolita, Sally Horner, Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita, true crime, Vladimir Nabokov ·
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Pale Fire and Invitation to a Beheading

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov

March 15, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Pale Fire Pale Fire remains one of the funniest and most impressive books I’ve ever read, and for me is Nabokov’s absolute masterpiece, especially in English. The book begins with a brief introduction from one of our two narrators, Charles Kinbote. Charles Kinbote is a professor and in this book will be editing the long poem of his colleague John Shade. John Shade, also a professor, has recently died and left a poem in intricately ordered index cards. We come to understand that Kinbote has […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Vladimir Nabokov

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:105 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Vladimir Nabokov ·
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Thanksgiving Week Glut

The Odyssey by Homer; Emily Wilson

A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Nine Princes of Amber by Roger Zelazny

To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer

Free Lance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed

Dragons of Highlord Skies by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Revolutionary Characters by Gordon Wood

Glory by Vladimir Nabokov

Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas

South of the Border West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

Books of Blood by Clive Barker

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

November 29, 2021 by vel veeter 2 Comments

The Odyssey – 5/5 Stars So my review is specific to the newer Emily Wilson translation, which I find particularly good and readable. She writes a long introduction that serves as a solid guide to the epic, to the writing, the historical context, and other important keys. This is long, but worthwhile, especially if you’re new to the story or it’s been a long time or you’re a little rough in your epic-reading. From there, there’s a very good translator’s note of some length explaining […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Clive Barker, Evelyn Waugh, Gordon Wood, haruki murakami, Homer; Emily Wilson, ishmael reed, kurt vonnegut, Lewis Thomas, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Philip Jose Farmer, roger zelazny, Vladimir Nabokov, William Boyd

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:495 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Clive Barker, Evelyn Waugh, Gordon Wood, haruki murakami, Homer; Emily Wilson, ishmael reed, kurt vonnegut, Lewis Thomas, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Philip Jose Farmer, roger zelazny, Vladimir Nabokov, William Boyd ·
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