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>Nabokov, the writer whom he most resembles
I don't even know how to approach such an idiotic statement.

>>8349860
Why don't you start by telling us why you disagree.

>>8349860
They're both massively overrated

>>8349887
I wish I could be told how he resembles him at all. I just flat out don't get it.
Different poster btw.

>>8349860

Stopped reading at "funeral of American fiction"

These whiny stuffed shirts with their bullshit.

>>8349887
Nabokov was chiefly concerned with aesthetics, lyricism, and wordplay while DFW was chiefly concerned with "realness" and self-help voodoo. DFW probably most resembles DeLillo (Ratner's Star in particular) but even then the connection doesn't feel 100%. There's almost no hint of Nabokov in Infinite Jest. I'd even say there's zero hint and I'm sure that Nabokov wouldn't care for anything in DFW's oeuvre. He'd probably call him a peddler of cheap tennis ball chronicles.

>>8349907
>peddler of cheap tennis ball chronicles

I think I have new material to make fun of DFW groupies.

>>8349907
If it was Nabokov he would probably say
DFW is a child playing with a yo-yo without a string

>>8349907
>There's almost no hint of Nabokov in Infinite Jest
Pale Fire, but it's hardly worth mentioning

>>8349945
>David Foster Wallace represents Nabokov's style at his worst, but still serves his trademarked tennis balls of awkward and stilted prose with pedestrian concerns and themes.