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>"I am bored by writers who join the social-comment racket. I despise the corny Philistine fad of flaunting four-letter words. I also refuse to find merit in a novel just because it is by a brave Black in Africa or a brave White in Russia — or by any representative of any single group in America. Frankly, a national, folklore, class, masonic, religious, or any other communal aura involuntarily prejudices me against a novel, making it harder for me to peel the offered fruit so as to get at the nectar of possible talent."
Would he have been ostracized by today's academia?
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Yeah man, totally. Literally everyone now a days would disagree with you. Only we at 4chan agree what you're saying.
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He's laughing at me...
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I agree with NAbokov
this shit is more evident in cinema too nowadays
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>>9294150
Today's academia is his day's academia. Nothing has changed in the 50 or so years since he said that. You only believe it has because you've never been a part of it.
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Nabokov is truly the best contrarian of the last century
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>>9294168
and it infects every single aspect of our lives. the obsession with race/culture needs to be thrown in the fire if we're to move forward.
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>by a brave Black in Africa or a brave White in Russia
So cheeky
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>>9294203
That's Borges but Nabokov is close enough
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He's very vain with expecting the world to live up to his undetermined standards
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He's the grumpiest Russian expat.
Remember that the Russian greats had a fundamentally moralistic dimension to their novels: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the two, both of which apply here.
Nabokov has westernised himself by being such a typically French or British aesthete.
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>>9294697
He doesnt expect anything, dingus
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>>9294697
He's just giving some of his criteria for things he likes to read?
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