Non-Lolita Nabokov

>>9775033
>not a fan of first person
Transparent Things

I hate Nabokov but more to the point why doesn't stuff like that pic get me hard anymore? Age? Marriage? Prozac? Probably all of the above. The fact is you reach a point when it is no longer possible to really believe that you could actually live the fantasy out, then these kind of images just become abstract, like a memory of thirst.

>>9775033
Ada and Pale Fire.
Why do you want to study his prose style, exactly?

>>9775051
>why doesn't stuff like that pic get me hard anymore? Age? Marriage? Prozac? Probably all of the above. The fact is you reach a point when it is no longer possible to really believe that you could actually live the fantasy out, then these kind of images just become abstract, like a memory of thirst.
It's literally a picture of a woman in a skirt (who doesn't even appear to have that nice of an ass or legs) from the hips down and a guy between her legs in the stereotyped James Bond poster layout. Stuff like that could have only gotten you hard if you had to go to summer-camp when you were a teenager in the heights of hormonal rage and couldn't touch your dick for days or weeks.

Ada, The Gift, and The Real Life of Sebastian Bach are his best works bar none.

>>9775051
You're gay.

>>9775099

> Real life of Sebastian Bach

I think Pnin is seriously underrated, imo it's his best English work.

The Gift is his best Russian.

Some short stories of his are strong too, you can probably find them online: Spring in Fialta, Lik, An Affair of Honour, The Vane Sisters, Signs & Symbols.

You mentioned you're not a fan of first person. Otherwise, Speak, Memory is essential Nabokov.

I'm not such a big fan of his later English work, after Ada he gets pretty senile and obsessed with Lolita.

>>9775033
Pale Fire is his best novel. Then maybe Pnin.

>>9775049
This.

>>9775033
I just finished Invitation to a Beheading. Pretty fun read, could probably be a bit shorter, but enjoyed the absurdity of it nontheless.

His short stories are less popular, but also brilliant.

Pale Fire and Lolita are a tier above everything else he wrote. Beyond that I think his best work is in Russian: Invitation to a Beheading, Despair, The Gift. The Eye is also surprisingly good.

You can always rely on /lit/ for a fancy shitposting style.