What the FUCK was his problem???

>>9438876
Synesthesia

>>9438876
Pedophilia

Trilingual

he wanted to diddle little kids

>>9439048
>projection

Too patrician

>>9438886
>>9438967
>>9439038
Fuck I really want to read him now, but I'm not interested in Lolita, at least not yet, where to start with Nabokovsky?

>>9439079
Pale Fire is his best. Invitation to a Beheading is also good.

>>9439187
>Invitation to a Beheading

Underrated desu.

>>9439296
I love it, but I thought it was the most well regarded of his Russian novels? Maybe underrated on /lit/.

>>9439304
Beheading suffers from unfavorable comparisons to Kafka.

I'd say The Gift is his most well regarded: His big fat Russian novel, as complex and as detailed as Proust.

>>9439322
I don't think the Kafka comparison is as superficial as some people say (Nabokov himself included). Especially if you view Kafka through a gnostic lens. I know he said that he hadn't read The Trial when he wrote Beheading, but maybe he'd had some other Kafka. Still Beheading is great in its own right.
Also good to hear that about The Gift. I'm glad to still have some top tier Nabokov left to read.

his molesting uncle traded him blowjobs for his inheritance.

>>9439934
Really?

>>9438876
Based as fuck pedo dude. : /

Possibly one the few cases of genuine 2deep4u out there

>>9440633
yeah.

https://moscow.sci-hub.cc/3aff297b07a767b7ef09d5ad42e07c13/[email protected]

worth a read for sure.

>>9440650
I'm too drunk to read all that, can you summarise?

>>9440683
His molesting uncle traded him blowjobs for his inheritance.

>>9440683
essentially, his uncle took a liking to him in his youth, and his parents didn't interfere. the uncle was incredibly rich, and he ended up inheriting his millions, despite others being in line, he obtained the entire sum, apparently. there's a reference to his texts, where he seems entirely capable and happy tomdescribe various sex acts but shies away from oral. there's no proof, of course, just many interesting inferences.

>>9440691
okay, interesting.

thank you.

PLEBS

He didn't get any respect

>>9438876
Drugs and women. Which is to say, nothing went wrong.