>writes the best novel and the best poem of the 20th century

>>9976694
It's a very good novel but in commenting on the self-absorption of the academic world it, ironically enough, becomes that which it critiques. It's expertly done, no doubt, but lacks the profundity of Joyce, Proust or Faulkner.

The poem is pretty good too but not my cup of tea

>>9976709
Thank you for a measured response

>>9976694
Must have been a slow century.

>the best poem of the 20th century
that is, if you know like three poets from 20th century
(or are a faggot insisting muh true has to rhyme or some shit)

Nabokov drones should be gassed.

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>Pale Fire
>Best poem
Did you even read it brah?

>>9976694
He didn't. Proust, Joyce, Bely and a ton of others wrote better novels, and the Pale Fire poem doesn't come close to Neruda, Pessoa, or a host of others.

>>9976694
>Pale Fire (poem)
>good
It's trash, that's the point, Kinbote is obsessed with Shade even those he's a literally who poet whose magnum opus is garbage.
For example:

I was an infant when my parents died.
They were both ornithologists. I've tried
So often to evoke them that today
I have a thousand parents. Sadly they
Dissolve in their own virtues and recede,
But certain words, chance words I hear or read,
Such as "bad heart" always to him refer,
And "cancer of the pancreas" to her.

Tell me with a straight face that that's better than the Waste Land.